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Hintlesham Hall
Suffolk
Hintlesham Hall
Location
Grid reference:	TM08284385
Location:	52°3’14"N, 1°2’11"E
Village:	Hintlesham
History
	Built From 1576
	Country house
	Georgian
Information
Condition:	Converted to a hotel

Hintlesham Hall is a grand country house to the north of Hintlesham in Suffolk, which is now a hotel.

The house is built around the core of a single-storey, Tudor hall, built in about 1576. It was altered 1680s by Henry Timperley, and remodelled into Georgian grandeur in 1725-1740 by Richard Powys.

The house is of brick, the main facade being rendered, with stone dressings, hipped plain tile roofs. It presents to the world today its 18th century façade, now standing at two storeys and attics. It is a Grade I listed building.^[1]

For six years from 1448, the original Hintlesham Manor was owned by Sir John Fortescue who used one of the rooms as a local court. In 1454 the manor was purchased by John Timperley.

In August 1720 the hall was bought by Richard Powys, a Principal Clerk to The Treasury, and the Powys family lived there for nearly 30 years, after which it was sold to the lawyer Richard Lloyd, a future solicitor-general, and passed down through his descendants until the early 1900s.

In 1972 the hall was bought by chef Robert Carrier and was restored. The business was later owned by the hotelier and broadcaster Ruth Watson and her husband. Today the hall is operated as a country-house hotel.^[2]

Outside links

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