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Swaffham Prior House (photo J H Bullock) (Cambridgeshire Collection

Swaffham Prior House

History of Swaffham Prior House

Listed Building, Park and Garden

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000396?section=official-list-entry

Small country house mostly mid-late C18 but having C17 origins. In C19 the house was extended. … In 1751 the house was acquired by Dr John Peter Allix and the house remained in this family until c1980.


Swaffham Prior House was built by Dean Allix in the 1750s.

In 1897 the marriage of Miss Isabelle Maude Allix of Swaffham Prior House and Captain Edward Young of the Royal Engineers.

Swaffham Prior House OS 1901

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