Hunting park The original Henham lands were hunting grounds in the historic civil parish of
Henham, the seat of the de la Poles
Earls of Suffolk, of
Wingfield Castle in Suffolk, on which a timber-framed structure was built with its own protective moat. However in 1513
King Henry VIII ordered the execution of
Edmund de la Pole, and granted the property to his friend
Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, who built a new mansion house in front of the old mediaeval timber-framed structure, in fine Tudor style. The house had extensive walled gardens on two sides and enclosed a large courtyard. On Brandon's death in 1545, the Crown granted Henham to Sir
Arthur Hopton of
Blythburgh who immediately sold the estate to Sir Anthony Rous, Knight, of
Dennington, near Stradbroke in Suffolk. In 1575
Christopher Saxton represented Henham with a small icon of a park on his map of Suffolk. This structure was the subject of
an episode of the
Channel 4 television series
Time Team in January 2013.
Georgian hall , then drawing instructor to Lord Rous In 1790 Sir John, later the first Earl of Stradbroke, commissioned
James Wyatt to build a new hall, in front of the second hall, with accompanying parkland design by
Humphrey Repton. This hall was demolished by the
fourth Earl of Stradbroke in 1953, A
horse mill used to operate on the estate, one of only two
known in Suffolk. This is now preserved at the
Museum of East Anglian Life at
Stowmarket. ==Present==