Gransden Lodge Farm

Description

The house is L-shaped and dates from the C17. It is two-storeyed and was originally framed, but the outer ground floor walls have been rebuilt in brick; the roofs are tiled. Much reused material is incorporated including a number of late mediaeval or Tudor joists with double-ogee moulding, some stopped, others worked at the ends in such a way as to suggest that the building for which they were designed had outside walls of masonry or brick.

Gransden Lodge Farm was called Lodge Farm in the 1826 Enclosure Award. However it is not to be confused with the later named Lodge Farm which was situated just north of Gransden Lodge airfield in the parish of Great Gransden (see 1956 map). Lodge Farm was sold in 1937 at auction [Bedfordshire Archives].

Listing

Not listed.

Occupants

William Edwards in 1841.

Thomas Hind in 1866.

George East was the farmer from c.1879 to 1888 (and a butcher from c.1896 to 1900), again a farmer from c.1896 to 1912 (and a carriage hirer in 1908 and 1912).

John Sheard in c.1892-96.

William Wagstaff in 1904.

Thomas Knibbs in 1916.

S. Cade was a tenant farmer c.1940-44.

J. H. Cox in 1949.

Peter Cox in c.1968-2001.

J. H. Cox in 1981-82.