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
Ufford Place Demolished 1956
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
UFFORD PLACE, SITUATED THREE MILES NORTH OF WOODBRIDGE, stood in parkland, which, since the demolition of the house, has become the site of a housing development, a hotel and a golf course. Unlike many country houses, it was never the seat of the lord of the manor, there having been another hall elsewhere in the parish.
The house is said to have been the property of the Hammond family in the late 1620s and to have been rebuilt by William Hammond, who is recorded as having a house with six hearths in 1674. By the fourth decade of the eighteenth century it was owned by Samuel Thompson, who married Anne, a daughter of Sir Charles Blois, first baronet. It descended to their daughter, also Anne, who married Reginald Brooke. Ufford was to remain in the ownership of the Brooke and Blois families until the middle of the twentieth century, although its descent in those families was somewhat complex. Reginald and Anne Brooke's son, Francis Capper Brooke, who died in 1886 and his son (by his second marriage), Edward, owned the estate for over eighty years, and it was during their tenure that Ufford Place was considerably enlarged. Francis Capper Brooke was clearly concerned that his estate should eventually pass to male members of his family, and he provided that, although the estate passed on Edward's death to his sister Constance, it was thereafter (if he had no male descendants) to be inherited by the heir male of Sir Thomas Brook, who had died in 1418, failing whom to the second and succeeding sons of Sir John Blois, eighth baronet of Cockfield. This last provision took effect, and the estate passed in 1930 to Eustace Steuart Blois, who took the name of Brooke on inheriting Ufford.
THE DEVELOPMENT of the house is largely undocumented, but it is said to have been originally a timber-framed building with gables and mullioned and transomed windows. On an 1823 map of the Reverend Capper Brooke's lands it is shown as a rectangular U-shaped building with a substantial rectangular building abutting the left-hand wing. The rear of the building faced north, and on this side the cross-wing had a substantial canted bay in the centre. An 1828 map shows a similar configuration, but the projecting wings on the south side had been connected by a further cross-wing to create an internal courtyard.
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- Lost Country Houses of Suffolk , pp. 166 - 170Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010