Country House in Cambridgeshire

Country House in Cambridgeshire

Pre-16th century

JA 2012

  • The origins of the building are obscure, but the form of the earliest part strongly suggests an open hall arrangement, with a kitchen at the low end (which still survives, with a pyramidal roof topped by a louvre), & the proximity to the adjacent monastery to the east indict some associated but probably lay function. Regrettably a fire in the 1970s destroyed the roof structure of the hall without its being ever examined or recorded, & vital information as to the origin of the building has been lost forever.
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