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Middlefield, Stapleford (also known as Mount Blow)

Introduction

Features include hedges and borders.

It seems likely that Lutyens indicated the layout of radiating allees on the garden front. The main vista has double herbaceous borders backed by hedges. The whole garden has been extensively restored and elaborated during the 1990s.
History

Middlefield, once called Mount Blow, looks southwards down a gentle slope over a stretch of Cambridgeshire farmlands. The house was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens between 1908 and 1909 for the legal scholar Henry Bond. It is red brick, neo-Georgian with big hipped roofs and tall chimneys. Middlesfield is one of four Edwardian mansions built in extensive gardens on rising ground known since the 13th century as Foxhill.

Period

  • 20th Century (1901 to 2000)
  • Early 20th Century (1901 to 1932)
Associated People
Features & Designations

Features

  • Hedge
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  • Herbaceous Border
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  • Allee
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  • Mansion House (featured building)
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Key Information

Type

Garden

Purpose

Ornamental

Principal Building

Domestic / Residential

Period

20th Century (1901 to 2000)

Survival

Extant

Civil Parish

Stapleford

References

Contributors

  • Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust