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Pampisford Hall, Royston Road

History of Pampisford Hall

Listed Building

Country house. 1820-31, main front rebuilt 1830-41 with additions and alterations c.1860 from designs by George Goldie (1828-87), for Wm Parker Hamond (d.1873); redecorated by his son, Wm Parker Hamond (d.1884), in Italian and French Renaissance styles, 1875. Additions, 1912 for J Binney. ….. The park contains 1,000 foreign species of trees and shrubs imported by the Parker Hamond and Binney families; the formal gardens were designed by G Marnock (VCH).

Gates and gatepiers. c1880, probably designed by G. Goldie for Wm Parker Hammond.

A mid C19 pleasure ground, arboretum and the remains of a formal garden, laid out from 1840 onwards to original designs by R Marnock (presumably Robert Marnock) with further later planting.

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