Search for the name, locality, period or a feature of a locality. You'll then be taken to a map showing results.

Nun's Manor, Shepreth

Introduction

Features of Nun's Manor include a vegetable garden, a drive, a pond and a summer house.

Nun's Manor is recognised by a neat vegetable garden situated immediately on the garden side of the roadside ditch. The nearly one hectare garden is divided into separate gardens. The access gravel drive is bordered with lavenders and rock roses. A pond with summer house is adjacent to a twin herbaceous border. A croquet lawn gives access to a walk planted with oak, beech, wild cherry and field maple around the edge of a field.
History

Nun's Manor is a 16th-century farmhouse built on fast-draining chalk.

Period

Tudor (1485-1603)

Features & Designations

Features

  • Drive
  • Earliest Date:
  • Latest Date:
  • Pond
  • Earliest Date:
  • Latest Date:
  • Summerhouse
  • Earliest Date:
  • Latest Date:
  • Herbaceous Border
  • Earliest Date:
  • Latest Date:
  • Croquet Lawn
  • Earliest Date:
  • Latest Date:
  • Manor House (featured building)
  • Earliest Date:
  • Latest Date:
Key Information

Type

Garden

Purpose

Ornamental

Principal Building

Domestic / Residential

Period

Tudor (1485-1603)

Survival

Extant

Civil Parish

Shepreth

References

Contributors

  • Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust