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Parsonage Farm, Burwell

History of Parsonage Farm

Listed Building

Farmhouse with parlour wing to east of tower-house proportions with attached late medieval barn partly derelict to west. Three building periods; late C16 farmhouse includes the end bay and gable wall of the earlier barn and possibly other medieval fragments in the strange alignment of the parlour wing and service rooms; enclosure of area to east of stair turret and service rooms early to mid C17.

Ramsay abbey had a large estate in the vicinity and they planned a new settlement at the head of Burwell Lode because of the importance of the waterway in the early medieval period. This manor house replaced on on the site of the Castle and dates from the 14th century. The barn may have been used as a public building, perhaps a trading hall.

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