Mansion Farm Coveney (RGL2026)

Mansion Farm, Main Street, Coveney

History of Mansion Farm

Listed Building

House. Late C16, with late C17 service addition to north end. Timber frame, plaster rendered, on brick plinth with south gable end rebuilt in C18 in red brick. … The manor was vested in the prior and convent of
Ely but the long tenure of the Lisle family and their successors the Scrope
family of Bolton, Yorks, suggests that it was regarded differently from other manors held of the prior and convent. The 5/- annual rent was not enforced from the tenant. It is thought that the Mansion House is the successor of the medieval manor house. In 1563 the tenancy of the manor was sold to Symeon Steward and held in that family until 1649 when it passed to Thomas Allen. In the C18 the house was owned by Robert Drake of Cambridge.