Title: sales particulars 1806 | Credit: Cambridgeshire Archives

1804 sales particulars

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“A modern-built freehold villa, most delightfully situate in the rural village of Hinxton… Consisting of substantial well-built house with handsome uniform fronts, containing five neat chambers on the attic story: five airy cheerful bed-chambers, with dressing rooms, on the principal floor: and on the ground floor the entrance hall,  large eating room, breakfast room, library, and spacious lofty drawing room with excellent cellaring, and all requisite offices, for the accommodation of a family of fashion: together with pleasure grounds, lawn, plantations, orchard, walled kitchen gardens, cloathed and planted with a choicest fruit-trees in full bearing: a cold bath: fish ponds, and dove-house well stocked: detached coach-house for five carriages: and capital court of stabling for fourteen horses: farm buildings and genteel cottages and sundry freehold and copyhold inclosures surrounding the house and lands dispersed in the adjoining common fields, containing altogether about one hundred and sixteen acres in a country abounding with game and surrounding roads remarkably good.”