Yaxley Hall
Sixteenth century Yaxley Hall was probably built near the site of an earlier moated house, with parts of the moat incorporated into its wooded pleasure gardens. Enlarged in the eighteenth century, it had a small park with an avenue of trees on its central axis. The site included a dove house, summerhouse and surviving nineteenth century folly gazebo. Much of the building was destroyed in a fire in 1923. It became home to the architect Sir Basil Spence during the 1970s, who built the surviving garden gazebo. By the beginning of the twenty-first century the parkland had been lost to arable and two new houses, the Hall restored and the gardens maintained, including a mound of unknown origin known as Beacon Hill in woodland to the north.
Not open to the public except for booked events
