Introduction
Features of Downhall Manor include an avenue and a moat.
An estate map dated 1804 shows an inner moat around the Hall and to the south within an outer moat a garden of six rectangular-edged plots. In the meadows further south of the Hall a cross avenue of trees is shown running east-west but these do not appear on the Ordnance Survey map dated 1887.
- History
The medieval manor house, now replaced by a 19th-century farmhouse, stood within a complex moated site, most of which survives. Also surviving is a remarkable timber-framed gatehouse dating from the late-13th century to 14th century. To the west, the old water mill has recently been restored.
- Features & Designations
Features
- Avenue
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- Moat
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- House (featured building)
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- Key Information
Type
Park
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
Survival
Part: standing remains
Civil Parish
Abington Pigotts
- References
Contributors
Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust