Groton Parish

Groton House was a large early-eighteenth century house incorporating a much earlier core. It had a small park that was extended by 1885, when the drive was moved so it curved around an extended garden area, its boundary an earthen bank and ditch, or ha-ha. Within the parkland is the surviving Pitches (Pytches) Mount, a large Norman ring motte that was once surrounded by a ditch. Groton House had a large walled garden attached to the rear. In 1981 much of the house burnt down and was rebuilt to a much-reduced size. Around the same time two new houses were built within the original gardens and the parkland was divided between the three properties. The area of the walled garden is still within the grounds of Groton House, although it is unknown if it survives.
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With sixteenth or seventeenth century origins, Groton Place was created the manor house for Groton by John Winstrop before he emigrated to Massachusetts during the puritan migration in 1630. It was remodelled in the Georgian style during the eighteenth century and later became a farmhouse. The site included farm buildings, now converted to residential properties, a surviving trapezoid-shaped walled garden attached to the north wing of the house that in 1838 may have become an ornamental garden, with an attached kitchen garden and path leading to a large pond, both surviving today. An orchard and small area of parkland to the east have been lost to arable cultivation.
Not open to the public