West Suffolk has superb homes and gardens to visit this summer from Gainsborough’s country to the Brecks. Lindsay Want shares why an Invitation to View visit to Belchamp Hall, Columbine Hall, Netherhall Manor, West Stow Hall, Haughley House and Ousden House makes for an eye-catching day out in her recent article in Bury & West Suffolk Magazine.…
South Elmham Hall Suffolk is home to treasured islands crowned with a bishop’s palace as well as a mysterious Minster. Writing for EADT Suffolk Magazine, Lindsay Want shares her height of summer visit to South Elmham Hall in the Waveney Valley where she meets owners and award-winning conservation farmers, Nicole and John Sanderson. (Published April…
Preview of paintings at the Guildhall, Finchingfield Invitation to View visitors to Finchingfield Guildhall on Tuesday 28th April can enjoy a preview of an exhibition of paintings by local artist Helga Crouch, which runs from 30th April to 14th May. A founder member of the Society of Botanical Artists, her detailed paintings were recently the…
Suffolk gems Invitation to View houses feature in two new volumes of James Bettley and Nikolaus Pevsner’s The Buildings of England (Suffolk: East and Suffolk: West), and of all the architectural gems in the west of Suffolk, Columbine Hall, Stowupland, has been chosen to illustrate the back cover of Suffolk: West. The front cover illustration…
Finchingfield finds on display Two fascinating sticks have been donated to Finchingfield Guildhall by Joan King. The first is a witch stick (left) found in a wall of her father Daniel Peddar’s 17th century thatched cottage. Daniel Peddar said his great, great grandmother’s sister had been beaten to death as a witch and he believed…
Three Invitation to View houses appear in a German book published this month. The gardens of Island Hall (left), Columbine Hall and Silverstone Farm, all in East Anglia, are featured in Die geheimen Gärten von England (Secret Gardens of England) by Heidi Howcroft and photographer Marianne Majerus.
The baroque splendour of Crowcombe Court, Somerset, and its impressive undercroft (left) can be seen on Salvage Hunters, series 6 episode 2, on Quest TV. Catch up at http://www.questtv.co.uk/video/salvage-hunters-6-episode-2/, or better still, join the Kenyons for their next Invitation to View tour on 21st May.
Congratulations to Andrew Brogan at Henstead Exotic Garden, which was chosen by Alan Titchmarsh as ‘Britain’s Best Back Garden’.
As well as a new website, Invitation to View has 13 new properties to visit during 2015: Cressing Temple Barns, Hoveton Hall, Letheringham Lodge, Spains Hall, Talliston House and Valentines Mansion…
Tickets for Belle Grove in Suffolk can be hard to come by. If you haven’t been lucky enough to visit this extraordinary property, known to many as the ‘Dragon House’, you can catch a glimpse of it on George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces on Channel 4.
