Dalny Veed, Barley
undated
Robert H
Clarke postcard
Dalny Veed [Map] 1907 by Edgar Wood [Link], the progressive Arts and Craft Manchester architect, very similar to his better known house at Upmeads, Staffordshire, of 1908. Prominently sited on a hill above the Cambridge Road. Axial plan with entrance set in a broad recessed flat brick panel, leading to a central two-storey hall. Mullioned windows. Behind the parapet is a flat roof of reinforced concrete, an idea introduced to Wood by his partner Henry Sellars. [The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire]
William Wood Cook lived at Dalny Veed in 1912 [Kelly]
A Miss Cook lived at Dalny Veed in 1929 [Kelly]
The zoologist, Sir John Graham Kerr, [Link] Fellow of the Royal Society, (1869-1957) lived at Dalny Veed for the last 22 years of his life.