Nettlestead Chace
Nineteenth century Nettlestead Chace was built on the site of the former manor house of Nettlestead Hall, an important Tudor mansion held by the powerful Wentworth family. Originally with a deer park first documented in the fourteenth century, the Hall and probably the park had lost their importance and deteriorated by the time the Wentworth family sold the estate in the seventeenth century. By the nineteenth century Nettlestead Chace became a farmhouse. A sixteenth century gatehouse that was part of the wall surrounding the original mansion survives at the entrance to Nettlestead Chace and within the gardens of the house there is an early-nineteenth century rustic octagonal shell summerhouse. The remains of a walled garden of unknown date also survive. Originally a fishpond that was converted to an ornamental canal by the late-eighteenth century and marked on maps with a boathouse at the beginning of the twentieth century is north of the house. The parish church and former rectory lie beyond. The site once included a courtyard of farm buildings, now converted to residential use, and a dovecote that was used as a grain silo and finally demolished in the mid-twentieth century. Today the house is a private residence.
Not open to the public
