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Historic Buildings of Cambridgeshire
England
The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Cambridgeshire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those establishments can be linked to this project and/or to individual projects where they have been set up.
Image right - Pampisford Hall
Image taken from page 99 of 'An Artist's Rambles in Cambridgeshire. A series of sketches [signed: John S. Clarke] with descriptive letterpress reprinted from “The Cambridge Express.”' British Library Flickr - No known copyright restrictions
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Historic houses in alphabetical order
Including Castles, Abbeys, Priories, Friaries, Manor Houses, Mansions, Stately Homes, Country houses, Estate houses, Courts, Halls, Parks and other listed buildings of historic interest
A
● Anglesey Abbey, Lode, Cambridgeshire
B
● Biggin Abbey, Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire
● Bourn Hall, Bourn, Cambridgeshire
● Buckden Towers
C
● Cheriton House
● Cherry Hinton Hall
● Chesterton Tower The Abbey; Rectory Farm Pele Tower major building
● Cheveley Castle Chevele; The Moats Fortified Manor House masonry footings
D
E
● Elton Hall, Elton - baronial hall in Elton, Cambridgeshire. It has been the ancestral home of the Proby family since 1660.
● Ely Old Bishops Palace Palace major building
F
● Farm Hall
G
● Gaynes Hall
H
● Harston House
● Hinchingbrooke House
● Holmewood Hall
I
● Island Hall
J
K
● Kettle's Yard
● Kimbolton Castle
● Kirtling Towers Catledge Hall; Catlidg Timber Castle , Masonry Castle , Fortified Manor House masonry ruins/remnants
L
● Leverington Hall
● Little Downham Bishops Palace Tower Farmhouse Palace masonry ruins/remnants
● Longthorpe Tower
M
● The Manor
● Marshall House, Cambridge
● Milton Hall
N
● Northborough Castle
O
● Old Vicarage, Grantchester
P
● Pampisford Hall
A country house designed by George Goldie in the civil parish of Pampisford in the English county of Cambridgeshire. It became a Grade II listed building on 29 October 1974.[1] The hall's gates and gate piers are also Grade II listed.
The gardens are Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. They are not open to the public.
● Peckover House and Garden
Q
R
S
● Sawston Hall
● Spinney Abbey
● Sutton, Cambridgeshire The Burystead Palace masonry ruins/remnants
T
● Thorney Abbey House
● Thorpe Hall
● Toft Country House Hotel
● Toseland Hall
U-V
W
● Walcot Hall
● Wimpole Hall
● Woodcroft Castle
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References and Sources
Cambridgeshire Specific
General
- National Trust
- English Heritage
- WIKI List of country houses in the UK
- Britain's Finest
- Britain Express
- Lankdmark Trust
- Historic Houses Association - represents 1,500 houses in the UK
- Hudson's Historic Houses and Gardens - UK - guidebook of over 2,000 houses open to the public
- The DiCamillo Companion to British & Irish Country Houses - database of over 7,000 houses
- Lost Heritage - A Memorial to the Lost Country Houses of England - list of over 1,700 houses
- National Trust for Historic Preservation - online database of historic houses in the United State
- - http://www.hha.org.uk/ Historic Houses Association
- WIKI Treasure Houses of England
- List of country houses in the United Kingdom
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