GEDDING HALL

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Early 16th century gatehouse, formerly part of a moated manor house, incorporated into a house of 1897. A series of four connected fishponds lie east of the house. The gatehouse is reached via a 19th century wooden bridge over the moat. The first manor house on the site is believed to have been built in 1273 and rebuilt in the 15th century.

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(TL 95385857) Gedding Hall (NR). (1)

A brick house, restored and partially re-built in 1897 but retaining the 16th century gatehouse. It is surrounded by a moat. The hall is said to have been built first in 1273 as the seat of Sir John de Geddynge and was rebuilt in the 15th century by the Chamberlayne family. (2-3)

A defensive moat (a drawbridge, now fixed, crosses the moat at the main S entrance) surrounds Gedding Hall, which is basically as described and not outstanding, the oldest surviving work being the 16th century S wing. (See ground photograph).

The moat, measuring overall about 75.0m E-W by 80.0m N-S with arms circa 10.0m wide, is waterfilled in the E & S arms, the remainder being dry, and 2.5m deep. The W portion of the S arm has apparently been re-cut in recent times and partly waterfilled.

A connected series of four fishponds (the northern-most dry) lies to the E of the house, water being obtained by a connecting ditch to a stream further South. A sluice ditch connects the moat to the ponds.

Published survey (25") revised. (4)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1958.

( 2) The buildings of England

Bldgs of Englnd 1961, 207 (N Pevsner). Page(s)207

( 3) The little guides

Suffolk (Little Guide) 1957, 170 (P G M Dickinson). Page(s)170

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 JRL 08-MAR-73

(5) List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest

District of Mid Suffolk, 18-APR-1988

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