Photo: Earsham Hall by Stephen Richards, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
About this place
Earsham Hall is a Queen Anne house built in 1707 on the Suffolk-Norfolk border, standing on a site with medieval origins.
The Derham family restored it from serious disrepair and continues to live there.
Sir John Soane worked on the house.
It is listed with Historic Houses, though entrance is not free even to members.
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The hall served as a boys' school from 1948 to 1973 before reverting to family occupation. A photographic archive kept at the house documents both its nineteenth-century residents and its years as a school. Annabel Stretton-Derham, from the family that restored the house, now leads visitors through the ground floor, original kitchen and working areas.
Architecture
The house is built in the Queen Anne style, with later alterations by the architect Sir John Soane.
Worth knowing
The building spent twenty-five years as a boys' school, from 1948 to 1973.
Gardens & grounds
Guided tours take in the gardens and working areas of the estate alongside the house itself.
Plan your visit
Nearest station: Beccles Rail Station (7.3 miles)
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