Country House in Cambridgeshire

Country House in Cambridgeshire

16th Century

JA 2012

  • The first documentary record of the building is in 1574, when it is mentioned in a survey of former monastic property, now in the hands of the crown, signed by Sir William Cecil, & written in preparation for the granting of the surrounding lands to the Russell family by Elizabeth I.
  • The building is clearly identified both by location & by its dimensions.
  • A semi-basement has been inserted beneath the new room, a chimney stack (not keyed into the walls) has been placed characteristically along the line of the original screens passage, ovolo-moulded mullioned windows inserted & the hall ceiled over (the ground-floor fireplace has a four-centred-arched head, and the 1st-floor a timber lintel carved with a Tudor rose).
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