Gifford's Hall, Wickhambrook

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Gifford's Hall is a manor house in the civil parish of Wickhambrook, in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It is Grade I listed [1] Its name derives from the same Gifford family who also owned Giffords Hall, Stoke-by-Nayland. [2]

In the reign of Edward I, Peter Giffard held half a fee here and by 1321 William Giffard received the grant of a free warren.

The Wickhambrook house passed to the Clopton family in the fourteenth century and subsequently to the Highams in the seventeenth century. After a period as a farm in the Victorian era it was divided into tenements before being bought by Seymour Lucas in 1904 who restored and modernised the building. [2]

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References

  1. "Gifford's Hall". Historic England . Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  2. 1 2 Sandon, Eric (1977). Suffolk houses : a study of domestic architecture. Woodbridge [England]: Baron Pub. ISBN   0-902028-68-5.

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