Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Map of Lost Country Houses in Suffolk
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Glossary of Architectural Terms
- Introduction: The Social and Economic Background
- Country House Losses in Suffolk – An Overview
- Acton Place Demolished 1825 and 1960
- Assington Hall Destroyed by Fire 1957
- Barking Hall Demolished 1926
- Barton Hall Destroyed by Fire 1914
- Boulge Hall Demolished 1955
- Bramford Hall Demolished 1956
- Branches Park Demolished 1957
- Bredfield House Demolished 1950
- Brome Hall Demolished c. 1958
- Campsea Ashe High House Demolished 1953
- Carlton Hall Destroyed by Fire 1941
- Cavenham Hall Demolished 1949
- Chediston Hall Demolished 1955
- Downham Hall Demolished 1925
- Drinkstone Park Demolished 1951
- Easton Park Demolished 1923
- Edwardstone Hall Demolished 1952
- Flixton Hall Demolished 1952/3
- Fornham Hall Demolished 1951
- Hardwick House Demolished 1926/7
- Henham Hall Demolished 1953/4
- Hobland Hall Damaged by Fire 1961, The Reinstated Ground Floor Demolished 2002
- Holton Hall, Holton St Peter Demolished 1957
- Hunston Hall Destroyed by Fire 1917
- Livermere Hall Demolished 1923
- The Manor House, Mildenhall Demolished 1934
- Moulton Paddocks Demolished 1950
- Oakley Park, Otherwise Hoxne Hall Demolished 1923
- Ousden Hall Demolished 1955
- The Red House, Ipswich Demolished 1937
- Redgrave Hall Demolished — The Georgian Building 1947, The Tudor Building 1970
- Rendlesham Hall Demolished 1949
- Rougham Hall Ruined by Bombing in 1940
- Rushbrooke Hall Destroyed by Fire During Demolition 1961
- Stoke Park Demolished c. 1930
- Sudbourne Hall Demolished 1951
- Tendring Hall Demolished 1954
- Thorington Hall Demolished 1949
- Thornham Hall Partly Demolished 1938, Partly Destroyed by Fire 1954
- Ufford Place Demolished 1956
- Appendix
- Notes to the Text
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
Bredfield House Demolished 1950
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Map of Lost Country Houses in Suffolk
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Glossary of Architectural Terms
- Introduction: The Social and Economic Background
- Country House Losses in Suffolk – An Overview
- Acton Place Demolished 1825 and 1960
- Assington Hall Destroyed by Fire 1957
- Barking Hall Demolished 1926
- Barton Hall Destroyed by Fire 1914
- Boulge Hall Demolished 1955
- Bramford Hall Demolished 1956
- Branches Park Demolished 1957
- Bredfield House Demolished 1950
- Brome Hall Demolished c. 1958
- Campsea Ashe High House Demolished 1953
- Carlton Hall Destroyed by Fire 1941
- Cavenham Hall Demolished 1949
- Chediston Hall Demolished 1955
- Downham Hall Demolished 1925
- Drinkstone Park Demolished 1951
- Easton Park Demolished 1923
- Edwardstone Hall Demolished 1952
- Flixton Hall Demolished 1952/3
- Fornham Hall Demolished 1951
- Hardwick House Demolished 1926/7
- Henham Hall Demolished 1953/4
- Hobland Hall Damaged by Fire 1961, The Reinstated Ground Floor Demolished 2002
- Holton Hall, Holton St Peter Demolished 1957
- Hunston Hall Destroyed by Fire 1917
- Livermere Hall Demolished 1923
- The Manor House, Mildenhall Demolished 1934
- Moulton Paddocks Demolished 1950
- Oakley Park, Otherwise Hoxne Hall Demolished 1923
- Ousden Hall Demolished 1955
- The Red House, Ipswich Demolished 1937
- Redgrave Hall Demolished — The Georgian Building 1947, The Tudor Building 1970
- Rendlesham Hall Demolished 1949
- Rougham Hall Ruined by Bombing in 1940
- Rushbrooke Hall Destroyed by Fire During Demolition 1961
- Stoke Park Demolished c. 1930
- Sudbourne Hall Demolished 1951
- Tendring Hall Demolished 1954
- Thorington Hall Demolished 1949
- Thornham Hall Partly Demolished 1938, Partly Destroyed by Fire 1954
- Ufford Place Demolished 1956
- Appendix
- Notes to the Text
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
Summary
BREDFIELD HOUSE, OCCASIONALLY REFERRED TO AS BREDFIELD HALL AND AS BREDFIELD WHITE HOUSE, STOOD THREE MILES NORTHWEST OFWOODBRIDGE. It was built by Robert Marryott, a lawyer from Woodbridge, in about 1655 but was the reshaping of an earlier house. Forty years later it passed into the ownership of the Jenney family, two of whose forebears had been prominent lawyers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and who were lords of the manor. In 1765 it formed part of the marriage settlement of Edmund Jenney and Anne, daughter of Philip Broke of Nacton.
During the Jenneys’ ownership the house was tenanted by the Purcell family and Edward, the third son of Dr John Purcell, who changed his name to FitzGerald. This Edward was the translator of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (see page 27). He was born at Bredfield in 1809 before the family moved to Boulge Hall in the next village. In 1859 Stewart William and Arthur Henry Jenney sold the property to Joseph White, and it remained in the ownership of the White family until the middle of the twentieth century.
MARRYOTT's house was built of brick on an H-plan. It had a kitchen and dairy at the rear of the right-hand wing in what survived of the earlier timber-framed house dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. It had Dutch gables on the projecting wings of the entrance front and one at the rear of the left-hand wing. It was of two storeys with attics and two segmentally pedimented dormers at the front. Considerable changes, including a new staircase, were made to the house in the eighteenth century when an orangery was added to the rear of the lefthand wing and other works, including the creation of a canal in the garden, were undertaken. In the middle of the nineteenth century the space between the rear wings was partially infilled. An inventory of the house in 1852 refers to the old and new drawing rooms, the kitchen and the new kitchen, and the scullery and the new scullery, suggesting recent changes to the old house.
Substantial alterations to the appearance of the house were also made. These included the building of two-storey canted bays with balustrades on the entrance front, the erection of Tudor-style barley-twist chimneys, new windows and entrance doors and the overlaying of the original brick with stucco.
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- Lost Country Houses of Suffolk , pp. 39 - 41Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010