Old photos and paintings of the Little Shelford Manor House

A painting of the rear of Little Shelford manor house reproduced

in A Record of Shelford Parva. There has been a Manor House

on the site since the 1300s.From the late C13 it was the

seat of the De Freville family, but after 300 years they sold it

to Tobias Palavicino, who had commanded one of the English

men-of-war in the battle with the Spanish Armada in 1588.

This house was largely demolished in c.1750 and the present

house, designed by Inigo Jones, was built.