Worlingham Hall
Incorporating elements of an earlier house, plans for a new mansion were prepared by John Soane in 1785, but designs by Francis Sandy were eventually used for Georgian Worlingham Hall built c. 1800 with attached surviving orangery and open colonnade. The house sat in a lozenge-shaped garden enclosure. Its park expanded after the enclosure of common land in 1787, and afterwards planted with trees creating a landscape park, including picturesque elements such as a castle folly. The park took in the remains of a duck decoy and had a dovecote and icehouse, neither surviving. It included two entrance lodges and, changing owners a number of times over the following centuries, the estate and parkland contracted and expanded, had a bypass road constructed through its eastern plantation and a housing estate built on the western parkland. Today the pleasure gardens have expanded beyond the original garden enclosure, the stables, coach house and offices have been converted for holiday accommodation and the house is let out as a venue for weddings and events set in a parkland that includes a number of mature ornamental trees. The principle walled kitchen garden sat outside of the park and some of its crinkle-crankle walls survive as the boundaries of houses built in the late-twentieth century.
Not open to the public except for holiday accommodation and special events
