A COUNTRYSIDE RETREAT IN FARNDISH
The
Manor
A handsome eight-bedroom country house, approached via a sweeping drive and set in an acre of mature gardens and orchards. Designed for groups of up to twenty-one (16+5) with the quiet comforts of a well-kept family home.
A COUNTRYSIDE RETREAT IN FARNDISH
A home for gatherings, celebrations & quiet escapes.
THE HISTORY OF FARNDISH MANOR
Built nearly 300 years ago.
We have no idea why they knocked the old house down, but we love the replacement and hope you will too. The house is Grade II listed and has had an interesting past, even being divided into two separate flats at some point early in the last century.
The current owners, the Rand family, bought the house in 2013 when it had fallen into a state of disrepair. They spent the next five years restoring it to create their “forever home”. Circumstances later changed, however, and they needed to move to their family farm in the neighbouring village. They remain very local and enjoy letting the house while they are away.
THE HISTORY OF FARNDISH
Mentioned in the Domesday book.
The name Farndish means fern-clad pasture and it was mentioned in the Domesday Book as 'Fernadis'.
Once an ancient parish that straddled the counties of Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, Farndish was abolished as a parish in 1884 and merged with the neighbouring parish of Podington. At the same time, the parts of Farndish that had been in Northamptonshire were transferred to Bedfordshire.
Local author H. E. Bates, author of The Darling Buds of May, would often pass through the village on his nocturnal walks in the 1920s and 1930s. Legend has it that it was on one of these walks that he found the inspiration for his first novel, The Two Sisters, after seeing a light burning in a cottage window.
