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Glemham Hall

The huge 16th-18th century house and its owner, Phililp Hope-Cobbold, are equally exuberant – a double wow factor. As is the haunted staircase and fine 200-acre park designed by Repton and known for its ancient oaks. The whole bought by the Cobbold brewing family in the early 20th century.

The red brick mansion, originally of the Elizabethan period, was built (around 1560) by the de Glemhams, a family which took its name from Great (Magna) and Little (Parva) Glemham. Considerable structural changes were made to the Hall between 1712 and 1722, giving it an overall Georgian façade. The Hall remained in various branches of the North family (Lord Guilford) for more than 200 years (1709-1923). In 1923 it was purchased by the Cobbold brewing family and became the home of Captain John Murray Cobbold, founder and first chairman of Ipswich Town Football Club as a professional club and his wife Lady Blanche, a daughter of the 9th Duke of Devonshire. Captain Cobbold - then Colonel - was killed in 1944, when a flying bomb destroyed the Guards' Chapel in London. Glemham Hall is a lived-in home, now occupied by their grandson Major and Mrs. Hope-Cobbold and their family. He is Patron of Ipswich Town Football Club, was High Sheriff of Suffolk 2005-2006 and is a Deputy Lieutenant for the county.

Tour approx 2 hours, £15 including tea, coffee, squash, cakes and biscuits except where otherwise indicated in the calendar.

www.glemhamhall.co.uk

To book, call the Mercury Theatre on 01206 573948
or book on-line at www.mercurytheatre.co.uk. 

Other nearby properties:

Bruisyard Hall
Buxlow Manor

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