Place House, Great Staughton 5959

Great Staughton, England, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire

Brief Description

Features of Place House include a moat, brick walls and yew hedges.

History

Place House was created in the mid-16th century.

Detailed Description

Leader imparked a large area of land, which led to riots by the adjoining tenants. The house was originally surrounded by a formal moat, which is now partially filled in, and brick walls to the south. There is a further moated enclosure to the west of the house and in the corner of the adjacent field a rectangular mound with rounded edges. Nearer the house are clipped yew hedges.
Features
  • Garden Wall
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  • Hedge
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  • Moat
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  • House (featured building)
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Authorities

Civil Parish

  • Great Staughton
History

Detailed History

Immediately to the north-west of the church, on the north side of the road, is Place House, originaly built on the site of a moated grange of the Charterhouse by Sir Oliver Leader (1539) when he acquired the Rectory Manor.

Period

  • Tudor (1485-1603)
References

Contributors

  • Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust