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
Oakley Park, Otherwise Hoxne Hall Demolished 1923
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
OAKLEY PARK, AS HOXNE HALL WAS RENAMED IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, BECAUSE ITS ESTATE LAY LARGELY IN THE PARISH OF OAKLEY, was a remodelling of an older house, and stood some three miles north-east of Eye near the Norfolk border. There was a monastery here before the Norman Conquest but in the early Middle Ages the property passed to the Bishops of Norwich whose palace it became. The palace was a large complex of buildings with a road running through them, and it has been suggested that this was the site of the Roman Villa Faustina, subsequently taken over by the Anglo-Saxons and adapted to other uses.
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries it was leased to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk but in 1543 the manor was granted to Sir Robert Southwell, Master of the Rolls. From the Southwell family it passed in 1621 to the Prescotts, and is said to have been acquired in 1642 by the Maynard family of Great Easton in Essex. The lordship of the manor and the property appear to have been in separate hands at this stage in their history. It seems that the estate passed from the Prescotts to the Style family, a member of which had married a Prescott. Subsequently it was acquired, possibly through marriage, by the Maynard family whose ownership lasted until 1820, when the estate was sold to Matthias Kerrison, a niece of whom had married Henry Maynard. Kerrison was a wealthy grain merchant from Bungay, who also bought nearby Brome Hall from the Cornwallis family. It was during its tenure by Matthias Kerrison’s son, General Sir Edward Kerrison Bt, that the house became known as Oakley Park. The estate remained in the family until shortly before the house was demolished.
TOWHAT EXTENT the episcopal palace survived once it came into the hands of lay owners is not clear. A map of the Hoxne estate in 1619 shows a six-bay rectangular U-shaped house with the projecting full-height entrance porch placed in the second bay from the left of the recessed cross-wing. In front of the house was a gatehouse flanked by substantial service buildings. The gatehouse tower is depicted as a more ornate structure than the house itself, suggesting that it may have been a survival from episcopal times and that a new house was built in the late Tudor or early Stuart period.
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- Lost Country Houses of Suffolk , pp. 110 - 115Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010