Suure-Kambja manor is first recorded in 1594. Later it belonged for a long time to the Stackelbergs. The one-story timber house probably went up fairly soon after the Great Northern War. From the 1790s the manor belonged to the Knorrings, who made the center grander: in the early 1800s the house gained an Early Classical look, with altered windows and a three-window superstructure with a segmental-arched window at its center. The half-hipped house was plastered over its older vertical board cladding. The ground between the house and the river became a picturesque park.
A fire in 1998 destroyed the roofs. Left roofless for years, the ruins are in critical condition: some log walls are leaning and most ceilings have collapsed. Several partly rebuilt outbuildings survive.
Owners
von Buxhoevedenkeskaeg
von Stackelberg
von Knorring1790. aastad
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After expropriation the house held a school, which closed in the 1960s.
Beneath the plastered facade lies the house’s older vertical board cladding.
