Great Bevills
Overlooking the River Stour, the boundary between Essex and Suffolk, Great Bevills was originally built as a manor house in the fifteenth century by the Waldegrave family of nearby Smallbridge Hall. The Great Bevills Estate changed hands in the first half of the eighteenth century and became a farmhouse. Over the centuries the house was extended on numerous occasions. At the end of the nineteenth century the estate was bought by the Probart family who substantially restored the house, planted a number of woods on previous farmland and created Italianate-style gardens with terraces, ponds and formal planting close to the house.
Not open to the public except on certain days for charity and organised group visits
