The Summer House

History

 

The Summer House adjacent to the gardens of the Warden's Lodge is part of Cambridge history. It was a famous part of the celebrated Leisure Gardens of old Cambridge, as detailed in an academic article:

"'We Shall Have Very Great Pleasure': Nineteenth-Century Detached Leisure Gardens in West Cambridge" by Jane Brown and Audrey Osborne (Garden History, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring, 2003), pp. 95-108,

This is available at JStor by subscription.   Excerpts: