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
- 16th Century
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Contributors
Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust