Introduction
Features of Manor House include moats, mounds, dovecote, garden walls and an ornamental garden.
The garden has a dovecote and extensive walls, to the north a moat with water and to the east a dry moat and pond; all this is part of a larger but never completed garden layout with prospect mounds at corners of the moat.
The house was built on the site of an older manor house which stood within a rectangular moated site. This moat was remodelled and became part of the garden of the house. As only part of the house was completed, only part of the garden was laid out. By the 17th and 18th centuries, the garden receded towards the house. The eastern Elizabethan garden is now pasture land.
- History
This 1585 stone manor house to the north of the village, was built for Sir William Mallory, descendant of Sir Thomas Mallory who wrote Morte d’Arthur.
Period
- Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
- Tudor (1485-1603)
- Features & Designations
Features
- Dovecote
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- Pond
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- Garden Wall
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- Moat
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- Artificial Mound
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- Manor House (featured building)
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- Key Information
Type
Garden
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
Period
Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
Survival
Extant
Civil Parish
Papworth St.
- References
Contributors
Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust