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Stirtloe House

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Introduction

Features of Stirtloe House include a claire-voie, a walled kitchen garden and trained fruit trees.

The park was once part of a larger deer park. The house is approached through fine iron gates and gate piers. A claire-voie with iron railings to the north of the house gives views to Buckden Towers. There is a well-established 2.8 hectare garden with fine trees, redwoods and cedars, and a walled kitchen garden with trained fruit trees along a south facing herbaceous border.
History

This late-18th-century brick house stands in the north-east corner of a small landscaped park of 20 hectares to the south extending west to the Great North Road. Between 1784 and 1790 the house was occupied by Lancelot, son of ‘Capability’ Brown.

Period

  • 18th Century
  • Late 18th Century
Features & Designations

Features

  • Herbaceous Border
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  • Kitchen Garden
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  • Gateway
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  • Clairvoie
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  • Garden Wall
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  • House (featured building)
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Key Information

Type

Park

Purpose

Ornamental

Principal Building

Domestic / Residential

Period

18th Century

Survival

Extant

Civil Parish

Buckden

References

Contributors

  • Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust