Yoxford Parish

Grove Park

Lying west of the village, late-eighteenth century Grove Park mansion was built on the site of an earlier house and remains substantially unchanged since that time. It stands in a landscape park developed when the house was built but reduced in size over the following centuries. It was designed in the fashionable ‘naturalistic’ style with shelterbelt of trees and parkland dotted with freestanding trees. It appears not to have had designed entrance lodges and once had two drives that converged at the front of the house, although when the parkland substantially reduced in size in the twentieth century the southern drive was lost. A late-eighteenth or early-nineteenth icehouse in a shelterbelt has survived but is now overgrown and in a decayed state. A large eighteenth century walled garden and range of late-nineteenth century lean-to glasshouses survive that was a productive kitchen garden until very recently. The pleasure gardens were always compact and lay west of the house.
Not open to the public

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Rookery Park

On the site of an earlier house, early-nineteenth century Rookery Park, historically called The Rookery, stands in its own park to the east of the village of Yoxford. The house is not listed by Historic England due to later substantial alterations. The park was in existence at the end of the eighteenth century and some parkland trees survive from this period, although mostly they date to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A canal-like pond and partly-walled garden were in existence at the beginning of the nineteenth century, both perhaps of an earlier date, with a late nineteenth century cottage orné lodge at the entrance. In the early-twentieth century a new stable block, serpentine lakes and formal north garden were constructed. Rookery Park changed ownership many times during the nineteenth and early-twentieth century, finally becoming the property of the present family who have owned it for over a century and who are conducting a programme of partial restoration/repurposing of the gardens and buildings on the site.
Not open to the public except for booked holiday accommodation

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Satis House

One of the larger of the village houses, Satis House was originally built in the mid-eighteenth century but has later alterations and extensions. With no parkland of its own, its position south of Cockfield Hall and the River Yox gave it the advantage of a fine ‘borrowed’ landscape of parkland that could be viewed from its pleasure gardens, planted with a variety of ornamental trees. Late-eighteenth and nineteenth features included an irregular elongated pond, island that may have been a small mound with likely summerhouse from which to view the parkland to the north, a surviving icehouse built into the embankment beside the main A12 road between Ipswich and Lowestoft and surviving, small walled garden with low crinkle-crankle wall. In the nineteenth century Satis House had an orangery that has not survived. Part of the pleasure gardens north of the house and the stable yard are now in separate ownership with the stable building converted for residential use. Today Satis House is a hotel and restaurant with a number of nineteenth century ornamental trees surviving in its gardens.
Open to the public as a hotel and restaurant

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