Melton Parish

Built at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Regency Foxboro Hall lies in a small park that is believed to have on a virgin site. It was built for William Whincopp and thought to have been designed by his friend Perry Nursey, a keen advocate of the ‘Picturesque’ style that believed gardens and landscapes should look like living landscape paintings. Both men moved in the same circle of artist and writer friends known as the Woodbridge Wits. The park was possibly originally laid out following ‘Picturesque’ principles, although much reduced in size by the development of a ‘wilderness’ plantation with criss-crossing tracks by the end of the nineteenth century. However the plantation was soon reduced in size so the parkland reverted back to its original extent and character. Originally only with pleasure gardens in walled enclosures beside the house, these were later supplemented by other garden areas around the house and believed to have been separated from the parkland by a ha-ha. There is an early-nineteenth century lodge with brick entrance piers and walling.
Not open to the public

Built at the end of the eighteenth century, Melton Hall is near the site of an earlier manor house that is believed to have been built by Richard Wood, son of the Earl of Halifax. It lies close to the market town of Woodbridge beside the historic main road between London and Yarmouth. The Wood family went on to have a successful solicitor’s practice into the twentieth century. The house stands in a small area of pleasure gardens dotted with nineteenth century trees and the site includes a late-eighteenth or early-nineteenth century walled garden with crinkle-crankle dividing walls, lawns with wildlife meadows and woods managed in collaboration with Suffolk Wildlife Trust.
Not open to the public