Suffolk Historic Houses
The hamlet of Flatford is famous as the location of many of John Constables best known paintings. The Bridge Cottage complex includes the John Constable Exhibition and Tearoom, a shop and a Restored Dry Dock. Flatford East Bergholt. CO7 6UL Tel: 01206 298260 Email A Tudor mansion set in more than 65 acres of attractive parkland a short walk from the
town centre. Furnished as an English country house, with excellent collections of furniture and ceramics,
best known for housing the most important collection of works by Constable and Gainsborough outside London.
It has extensive collections of paintings, drawing, prints and sculpture by Suffolk artists from the 17th
Century to the present day.
A 16th century timber-framed building overlooking Lavenham market place, the Guildhall houses displays of local history, farming, industry, the railways and the woollen cloth trade. It has a beautiful walled garden with a special dye plant area, and also the village lock-up and mortuary Market Place, Lavenham, CO10 9QZ Tel: 01787 247646 Email The birthplace of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88), one of England’s very greatest painters. It is now an art gallery and museum with more of his paintings, drawings and prints on display than anywhere else in the world. The House has a Georgian facade, built by Gainsborough’s father, but retains features dating back more than 500 years. The garden’s mulberry tree would already have been mature when Gainsborough was a boy 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, CO10 2EU Tel: 01787 372958 Email The original Guildhall, Market House and Wool Hall now form one of the most important mediaeval timber-framed buildings in Suffolk. The complex includes the guild room, old town hall, Georgian assembly room and Victorian ballroom Hadleigh Ipswich IP7 5DT Tel: 01473 823884 Email Haughley ParkJacobean manor house set in parkland. Six acres of gardens, including walled kitchen garden.
Woodland walks, with magnificent drifts of bluebells in Spring The property is described by the National Trust as an eccentric house created in 1795 by an
eccentric Earl to display his paintings and other collections. The house is surrounded by an Italianate
garden and is set in a park designed by Capability Brown. The park is full of interest and includes woodland
walks, a deer enclosure, vineyard, summerhouse, church, canal and a lake. a mellow redbrick Tudor Mansion surrounded by a broad Moat. A friendly lived-in Home,
described by Country Life in 1992 as ’The epitome of many people’s image of an Elizabethan house’. 14th century timber-framed, wool merchant’s house. Museum contains a collection offurniture, paintings and artifacts and has a walled garden. Market Place, Lavenham, Sudbury, CO10 9QZ Tel: 01787 247179 An Elizabethan house where little has changed externally since 1578. With an
original panelled banqueting hall, a Regency library as well as Victorian bedrooms and collections of
furniture and porcelain. The garden contains some specimen trees and a banqueting house. Grade I moated house was the home of Gosnold family. Bartholomew Gosnold sailed to America 13 years before Mayflower, named Martha’s Vineyard and founded Jamestown There is 10-acre garden including medieval herber and knot garden. Otley, IP6 9PA. Tel: 01473 890264
Lowestoft NR32 5QQ Tel: 01502 730224 Email Wingfield Old College and Gardens A medieval house and gardens with a combination of arts and heritage: with collections of textiles, prints and ceramics plus 4 acres of gardens with topiary, ancient ponds and garden sculpture. A new Walled Garden opened at Easter 2002 with exotic and radical planting schemes. There is a visitor centre for Wingfield Arts with 3 Exhibition galleries and changing contemporary art exhibitions throughout the season Church Road, Wingfield, Nr Stradbroke IP21 5RA Tel: 01379 384888 | ||
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