Conservation
The conservation area :-
- Extends from Vicarage Close, Bury Street in the north covering Manor Farm Area part of the Oaks and St Edmunds Roads Churchfield Gardens and the High Street as far as King Edwards Road to the south.
- South side of Eastcote Road as far as Manor Way including Manor Way, Manor close Priory Close and Green Walk.
The Manor Farm Area has some outstanding buildings :-
The Great Barn is the second largest in Middlesex built about 1300 which has a most wonderful timber framework and roof.
The Little Barn now the library has a later date of 1600. The windows have heraldic shields one of which is Kings College Cambridge who originally owned the land before it passed to Ruislip and Northwood Urban District Council and later to Hillingdon Council.
Manor Farm House was a 16th century Manor House. Prior to the renovation of the site paid for from the Heritage Lottery there had been extensive subsidence and the upstairs had become uninhabitable.
The Cow byre originally was a 19th century thatched cow byre but was burned down in 1976 and opened as an exhibition centre and tea room attached in 1980.
The Motte and Bailey is the large mound surrounded by the moat. It is possible that it was the site of a castle in Norman times and as a stockade used by Ernulf de Hesdin one of William the Conquerors knights on his journey to Berkhamstead.
The duck pond was once the farm horse pond.
The storm of Oct/Nov 2000 damaged the roof of the Great Barn.
The Conservation Area to the Manor Farm area has been vandalised in recent times.
In November 1998 many thousands of daffodils and crocus were planted by voluntary labour in the whole of the ‘complex’ area.
Represented on the committee by Elma Hutton.
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