Boxted Hall
Owned by the Poley/Weller-Poley family since the fourteenth century, the present moated Boxted Hall was built in the sixteenth century to replace an earlier house on the site that had a medieval deerpark. The house is accessed via a medieval bridge across the moat fed by the River Glem. Probably with mid-eighteenth century origins, a landscape park was developed around the house with a surviving partly-walled garden and two pavilions on the opposite side of the river within its pleasure gardens. Other walled enclosures, probably of a similar date, are on rising ground north of the moat. The river fed a series of channels that are suggestive of wildfowl management and documented in the nineteenth century as ponds with water lilies, reed beds and willows. Other features included shrubberies, a fern garden and stumpery with a number of mature ornamental trees. There was also a dovecote, ice house and surviving entrance lodge.
Not open to the public except to hire for house parties, weddings and events.
