Wissett Hall
Said to be on the site of a substantial earlier house, Wissett Hall has an early-seventeenth century core but was substantially altered and extended in the late-Victorian and early-twentieth century in the Arts and Crafts style. A farmhouse by the early-nineteenth century, and probably from a much earlier date, it had a small area of garden and parkland until surrounding fields were slowly taken in and converted to wooded parkland during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the early-twentieth century the alterations to the house and gardens may have been designed by Walter Sarel, an architect renowned for his conversation of much earlier buildings in the Arts and Craft style, at the same time redesigning the gardens in the same style with a mix of garden compartments and wilder areas, influenced by and often working with Gertrude Jekyll. At this time features added were a walled garden with crinkle-crankle walls and terraced lawn with ha-ha. The gardens continue to be maintained as separate areas with a rose garden and formal box garden.
Not open to the public
