Introduction
Features of Great Stukeley Hall include shrubberies, a walled kitchen garden, a garden terrace, a ha-ha and an avenue.
The 1888 Ordnance Survey maps show a small park to the south with peripheral planting and shrubberies around the Hall, and to the west a large walled kitchen garden. 1870 photographs indicate complex flower beds in the south lawn.
By 1924 the garden had been formalised with a terrace and ha-ha overlooking the park. The path layout in the kitchen garden has been lost and immediately to the south-west a new chestnut avenue has been planted. Today this avenue borders a new road to the Hall. New detached houses have been built to the north side of this tree-lined access.
- History
The existing hall is thought to have been built for James Torkington whose family held the estate for 300 years. During the last century it was occupied by various families and finally by Howard Coote, who bought it in 1904.
Period
Victorian (1837-1901)
- Features & Designations
Features
- Avenue
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- Shrubbery
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- Kitchen Garden
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- Lawn
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- Garden Wall
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- Garden Terrace
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- Ha-ha
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- Hall (featured building)
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- Key Information
Type
Park
Purpose
Ornamental
Period
Victorian (1837-1901)
Survival
Extant
Civil Parish
Houghton and
- References
Contributors
Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust