Henham Hall, Suffolk

Acquired: 1538

Henham Hall was a large courtyard-plan house built in the 1520’s by the Duke of Suffolk, Henry VIII’s brother-in-law. The king bought it from him in 1538, when it was described as “a faier newe howse well buylded with tymber and fayer lyghtys and at the cumming in to the Court a faier yate howe of breake newly buylded with iiii turrettes,” (MacCulloch, 67). An eighteenth-century fire and subsequent demolition has removed all but a few masonry remnants of the Tudor building from the site.