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Boulge Hall and Park

The site of the demolished Boulge Hall lies in an isolated position close to the parish church. Fieldwalking finds suggest there was once settlement nearby, which is likely to have disappeared when a landscape park surrounding the house was created c. 1800, at a similar time to the building, or restoration and extension of the house. It sat in an oval-shaped garden enclosure with a connected walled garden. Major garden work took place at the end of the nineteenth century that swept away formal flowerbeds to be replaced by a terrace overlooking lawns with specimen trees down to a newly-created lake. Other features included tree walks, herbaceous borders and a ‘wilderness’. The Hall was demolished in 1955, much of the park was turned to arable, although many parkland trees survived. A new house has been built where the stables once stood, but the walled garden and basic shape of the garden enclosure survive.
Not open to the public except on public footpaths through the park

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Boulge Parish

Ashmans Hall

Early-nineteenth century Ashmans Hall stands on rising ground, originally with fine views of Beecles to the east and the River Waveney. Once part of the Roos Hall and Ashmans Estate, the large Regency-style country house was built by a member of the Rede family and had a relatively small area of parkland to the east and west plus plantations and groves. It is believed it once had a large walled kitchen garden and a nineteenth century entrance lodge. The house fell into disrepair in the mid-twentieth century and has now been completely restored with new formal gardens created and used for group and holiday accommodation. However, much of the original grounds are now in separate ownership.
Not open to the public except for private hire and holiday accommodation

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Barsham

Aspall Hall

Aspall Hall is a former manor house that sits on an island surrounded by an oval moat. The house dates from the late-sixteenth century although altered over the following centuries, particularly its long twelve bay front created in the late-eighteenth or early-nineteenth century. A bridge gives access over the southern arm of the moat to the island, although it may have originally had a bridge across the western arm with a long drive centred on the house towards the parish church. A canal-like pond parallel to this drive has not survived, nor has a dovecote west of the moat and beside the drive. The house once had a small park with ancient woodland beyond and a number of surrounding plantations. Owned by the Chevallier family since 1702, the Aspall Hall Estate became the centre of cider production that continues today with surrounding fields developed as orchards.
Not open to the general public.

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Aspall Parish

Badmondisfield Hall

With a history dating back to the medieval period, the present moated Badmondisfield Hall dates back to the fifteenth or early-sixteenth century and replaced an earlier house. It once stood in a medieval deer park that still existed in the sixteenth century and much of it appears to have been converted into a landscape park. In the late-eighteenth century it had a western drive flanked by an avenue of trees that appears to have been replaced by a wide avenue on the central axis of the house running north-east to south-west. A visually dramatic causeway through three ponds lay at it northern end and a viewing point once existed at the southern end. Today the three ponds have become one with the loss of the causeway and much of the parkland is now arable fields. A main, possibly fifteenth century, bridge crosses the moat. One arm of the moat appears to have been straightened to create an ornamental ‘canal’ with a further ‘canal’ outside the moat to the west. The house underwent an extensive modernisation during the Georgian period, with further twentieth century changes.
Not open to the public

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Wickhambrook Parish

Cavendish Hall

Early-nineteenth century Cavendish Hall sits in a small park on a gently sloping site in the rolling landscape of the River Stour valley side. Evidence suggests it was built on the site of an earlier house. After restoration by the Landmark Trust who lease the house from the Pamela Matthews Trust to use for booked group stays, this country house maintains many features associated with its Regency period. Much of its original parkland has been retained, with twentieth century garden planting simplified for ease of maintenance and to reflect its original more naturalistic style. The site includes an early-nineteenth century walled garden and entrance lodge, with another lodge added in the twentieth century.
Not open to the general public except for booked stays

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Cavendish Parish

Stowlangtoft Hall and Park

Mid-nineteenth century Stowlangtoft Hall was built in Italianate-style to replace the earlier manor house on lower ground, closer to a river and the village called Stow Hall. The old hall had a history dating back to medieval times, although the house that was demolished or burnt down in the mid-nineteenth century was originally built in the seventeenth century. It had a small park with a surviving walled garden and lost pleasure grounds featuring a surviving sinuous lake and island, with bridge over the river to the northern section of parkland. The parkland began to expand before the new Stowlangtoft Hall was built and a road closure and moving the route of another road allowed a much larger landscape park to develop early in the nineteenth century. More recently some areas of parkland have reverted to fields, but the remaining parkland features a number of mature nineteenth century parkland trees. The new hall was built on a gentle slope with surviving loggia, domed conservatory and garden terrace, although a lower terrace and Italian garden have been lost. The remnants of linking pleasure gardens between the old walled garden and new hall survive. Stowlangtoft Hall became a care home in the twentieth century and the stable courtyard was converted to residential and holiday lets. The care home and estate have been in the ownership of the same family for nearly a hundred years and are managed by family members today, including a well-established shoot that was a favourite of the Price of Wales, later King Edward VII.
Not open to the general public

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Stowlangtoft Parish

Moreton Hall

Late-eighteenth century Moreton Hall is a country house designed by the well-known architect Robert Adam for John Symonds. Originally called St Edmund’s Hill when it sat in parkland created from arable fields, in the late-eighteenth century it changed its name to The Mount and shortly after to Moreton Hall. A late-nineteenth century wing was added to create the house seen today. High on a hill, its site gave extensive views south and westward over Bury St Edmunds and the abbey site. There is a northern drive with entrance lodge and shelterbelts of trees. To accommodate the slope of the site, a raised terrace and inner garden was created that developed over time to accommodate a rose garden. A late-nineteenth century pond and fountain lies south of the house and it once had a square walled garden, possibly contemporary with the house. In the twentieth century the house and parkland became a preparatory school with the rest of its estate broken up and sold for residential development, to create the Moreton Hall housing estate that continues to grow today. A health club has been built within the grounds and the school closed in 2020, since when the house has fallen into disrepair and, as of 2026, is on Historic England’s Heritage At Risk Register.
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St Edmundsbury Borough

Badley Hall and Badley Walk

Formally a manor house and large early-sixteenth century mansion with courtyard plan, much of Badley Hall had been lost to storm or demolition by the middle of the eighteenth century to become a tenanted farm. It forms part of a settlement cluster with the parish church. The site also includes a sixteenth century dovecote, barn and bakehouse. A grand approach avenue, probably contemporary with the house, once connected the original eastern entrance front of the house to the Needham Market to Stowmarket road. Known as Badley Walk, the western section of the avenue has been replaced by hedges and the eastern end overgrown with trees and shrub, although the greenward survives and along the whole length of the approach there is a public footpath. Another avenue on the same axis to the west of the house is shown on an eighteenth century estate map. The ghost of garden enclosures surrounding the house survive and an ornamental garden canal, now in a degraded state, lies at right-angles to the house and flanks it to the south-west side.
House is not open to the public. Badley Walk is a public footpath.

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Badley Parish

Brettenham Hall and Park

Now known as Old Buckenham Hall School, Brettenham Hall was built in the early-seventeenth century, possibly on the site of an earlier manor house, perhaps with a large associated park that was further developed in the late-eighteenth century and influenced by the work of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown at Branches Park. The pleasure gardens, house, yards and kite-shaped walled garden lay within a lozenge-shaped enclosure, partly separated from the parkland by ha-has. The house was extensively altered during the early-nineteenth century. The park has reduced in size since it became a school in the mid-twentieth century when a number of new school building were added, parkland has become playing fields and some areas converted to arable. The walled garden and part of the nineteenth pleasure gardens survive and the park includes lodges, a late-nineteenth century model farm and avenue of oaks flanking the main entrance drive.
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Brettenham Parish

Fasbourn Hall

Fasbourn Hall, originally part of a larger moated manor house, dates from the early-seventeenth century but with substantial nineteenth century alterations. It lies remote from Buxhall village and appears to have once had an attached deer park. By the early-nineteenth century it had become a farmhouse. Two arms of the moat survive that became ornamental canal-like features around this time. A viewing mount lies beside one of the arms of the moat suggestive of an early date associated with the deer park. Attached to the house is a nineteenth century glasshouse and section of seventeenth or eighteenth century garden wall of a similar date to the bridge that crosses the southern-most canal. The farming estate was broken up during the twentieth century and the house plus c. 10ha (25a) of land became a B&B plus glamping site. By 2026 the house appears to have closed for business.
Not open to the public

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Buxhall Parish