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The Old Manor House
Created 21 June, 2008
The oldest surviving building on the High Road in Wormley, is the old Manor House, which dates from the late *16th and early 17th centuries. It probably stands on the site of the house occupied by the farmer of the manor lands before Wormleybury was built and its correct name should be the Manor Farm. Alternatively it has been identified as Dowsyns, a property mentioned as early as 1467, the title deeds of which are said to go back more than 250 years.
**In 1937 some fifteenth-century wall paintings were found in Dowsyns. They represented hunting scenes and other phases of rural life. Unfortunately many were destroyed in the redecoration of the house. It is supposed that Richard Houghton, who died in 1549, lived at Dowsyns. He left a small sum for the repair of the street in Wormley 'near where I now dwell'. He came from an old-established Wormley family, which died out in the next generation, though a Roger Houghton of Hoddesdonbury is mentioned fifty years later.
* Reference Broxbourne and Wormley's past in pictures by David Dent.
** Reference Wormley in Hertfordshire by Bushby and Le Hardy