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Carlton Hall and Park

Eighteenth century Carlton Hall once stood in a landscape park but was destroyed by fire on Christmas Day 1941 when requisitioned by the government for the war effort. It stood near the site of an earlier hall that may have been associated with a lost settlement centred on the surviving parish church. The Carlton Hall Estate expanded during the eighteenth century. The house, pleasure gardens, walled garden and well-wooded parkland were leased out for much of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, including to Richard Garrett III and his family. Richard had built up the family engineering business based in Leiston, his factory is now The Long Shop Museum. After World War II the estate was broken up. An industrial estate and houses were built on part of the parkland and eventually the Carlton Hall site was redeveloped to create a number of residential properties who share what remains of the gardens and a small area of parkland. A sports club owns part of the original parkland and the rest has been converted for arable use.
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Kelsale cum Carlton Parish

Kelsale Court

Externally little-changed from when it was built as a rectory c. 1810 for the Revd Lancelot Brown, grandson of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, Kelsale Court had a small area of parkland developed in the early-nineteenth century, lawns, orchard and large walled garden with the River Fromus running through the grounds. In the twentieth century the parkland became the village recreation ground and the walled garden and most of the lawns were lost to housing, although the nineteenth century route of a path between the house and the unusual late-nineteenth century lych gate survives between the houses. The house is now a private residence and stands within a small area of gardens dotted with specimen trees of various ages, some from the nineteenth century.
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