Introduction
Features of the Old Rectory include a lawn, long herbaceous borders, terraces and forest trees.
The Old Rectory was the home of Mary Paley between 1850-70, the daughter of Reverend Thomas Paley, Rector of Ufford cum Bainton, who wrote about ‘the rambling old house, its front covered in red and white roses, a lawn, forest trees, long herbaceous borders and green terraces of the wonderful Victorian garden'. She subsequently married Alfred Marshall, the economist, and spent the later years of her life at Balliol Croft, 6 Madingley Road in Cambridge.
- History
The rectory has a 19th-century external appearance but conceals 14th-century roof timbers inside.
Period
Victorian (1837-1901)
- Features & Designations
Features
- Herbaceous Border
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- Lawn
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- House (featured building)
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- Key Information
Type
Garden
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
Period
Victorian (1837-1901)
Survival
Extant
Civil Parish
Ufford
- References
Contributors
Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust