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
Henham Hall Demolished 1953/4
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
HENHAM HALL, SOME FOUR MILES INLAND FROM SOUTHWOLD, replaced an earlier house on the estate which in late medieval times had belonged to the de la Poles, Earls of Suffolk. After the execution of Edmund de la Pole in 1513 the property passed to Charles Brandon, Earl of Suffolk and after his death was granted to the Hoptons from whom the Rous family, previously living at Dennington, acquired it in 1545.
THE ELIZABETHAN house, with its walled entrance courtyard and frontage embellished with towers at each corner and a central towered entrance, was destroyed by fire in 1773 (apparently through the carelessness of a drunken butler), but it was not until 1792 that the building of the new house commenced. Shortly after the fire James Byres had produced plans for a new house but these were never executed. Instead Sir John Rous (later the first Earl of Stradbroke) employed James Wyatt as his architect. Wyatt had previously designed houses for Sir Charles Kent at Fornham and the Marquess of Hertford at Sudbourne and interiors for Sir Gerard Vanneck's house at Heveningham. To redesign the landscape Rous employed Humphrey Repton whose Red Book survives.
Wyatt's house was built on a site adjacent to that of its predecessor. It was a plain three-storeyed building of seven bays on the entrance front and five bays on the flank. The central three bays on the entrance front projected forward and were surmounted by a pediment. The portico with two columns provided a balcony at first floor level. At the rear was a courtyard in which the domestic offices were situated. The principal rooms – drawing room, eating room, library and Sir John and Lady Rous’s private rooms – were on the first floor together with the saloon in the centre of the entrance front between the drawing and eating rooms. The saloon had a central window flanked externally by pilasters and with a pediment. The house was described in the nineteenth century as having been designed without any pretensions to architectural effect. It took eight years to build and cost a little over £21,000.
Wyatt's house was remodelled by Edward Middleton Barry who converted it into an Italianate building in 1858 and subsequent years.
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- Lost Country Houses of Suffolk , pp. 86 - 89Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010