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Bacon's House at Gorhambury is a late sixteenth-century timber-framed building located in Hertfordshire. The structure is associated with the prominent Bacon family, whose seat at Gorhambury was one of the most significant residences in the county during the early modern period. The building displays characteristic features of its period, including timber-framing and evidence of substantial domestic accommodation befitting a gentry household. The site remains an important example of late Tudor domestic architecture and its survival provides material evidence of the building practices and domestic arrangements of the Elizabethan era.
Bacon's House, Gorhambury is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003525. View the official record →
Bacon's House at Gorhambury is a late sixteenth-century timber-framed building located in Hertfordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003525.
Bacon's House, Gorhambury is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1003525.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Verulamium, Prae Wood settlement (1.4 km), Verulamium, part of wall and ditch of Roman city (3 km), St Albans Abbey, site of conventual buildings (3.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bacon's House, Gorhambury's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Bacon's House, Gorhambury stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.