Hemingstone Hall is a
Jacobean manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...
in
Hemingstone
Hemingstone is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England located 6.5 miles (11 km) north of Ipswich.
Hemingstone lies in the hundred of Bosmere. It is a small parish devoted largely to fruit farmi ...
close to
Ipswich
Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line ...
in
Suffolk,
England
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. It was built in the early 17th Century, around 1625, for William Style.
The house is of two storeys, with attics, and is built to an H-plan in
red brick
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. James Bettley, in his 2015 revised volume, ''Suffolk: East'', of the
Pevsner Buildings of England series, records the two-storey
porch
A porch (from Old French ''porche'', from Latin ''porticus'' "colonnade", from ''porta'' "passage") is a room or gallery located in front of an entrance of a building. A porch is placed in front of the facade of a building it commands, and form ...
with
Tuscan pilaster
In classical architecture, a pilaster is an architectural element used to give the appearance of a supporting column and to articulate an extent of wall, with only an ornamental function. It consists of a flat surface raised from the main wal ...
s and
obelisk
An obelisk (; from grc, ὀβελίσκος ; diminutive of ''obelos'', " spit, nail, pointed pillar") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top. Originally constructed by An ...
s.
Hemingstone is a
Grade I listed building
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.
It remains a private home and is not open to the public.
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External links
Hemingstone Hall in Country Life Images
Grade I listed buildings in Suffolk
Mid Suffolk District
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