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The Manor House, Great Eversden

Introduction

Features include an avenue, a moat and a bridge.

There are 1.2 hectares of gardens approached through a short lime tree avenue over an outer moat, then over a bridge of the inner moat.

Around the Manor are flower, rose and vegetable gardens in rectangular divisions within the moated area.

History

The present 17th-century moated Manor House was remodelled in the 18th century and stands on the site of an earlier house recorded along with a drawbridge in 1382.

Period

18th Century (1701 to 1800)

Features & Designations

Features

  • Tree Avenue
  • Moat
  • Rose Garden
Key Information

Type

Garden

Purpose

Ornamental

Principal Building

Domestic / Residential

Period

18th Century (1701 to 1800)

Survival

Extant

Hectares

1.2

Civil Parish

Great Eversden

References