Otley Hall

Otley Hall is a 16th-century English manor house[1] in the civil parish of Otley, in the East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England. It is a Grade I listed building.[2] The manor was previously known as Netherhall Manor.[3]

The Gosnold period

John Gosnold at first rented what became Otley Hall. By the sixteenth century Otley Manor was vested in the Gosnold family building, and soon their new building gained the status of a manorial building.[4] Robert Gosnold was responsible for building the oldest extant parts of the building in 1512.[1] The four-centred arch that provides the entrance bears his initials.[5]

The Sherston period

Dorothy Sherston, the daughter of General William Parke, bought the house as a family home following her marriage to Somerset Sherston.

Otley Hall gardens

The gardens were redesigned by Inigo Thomas,[6] with a knot garden designed by Sylvia Landsberg.

References
  1. "A visit to Otley Hall - the birthplace of the Virginia Company". British Heritage. British Heritage. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  2. "Otley Hall". Historic England. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  3. Coppinger, W. A. (1909). The Manors of Suffolk Vol. 3. Manchester: Taylor Garnet & Evans.
  4. "History of Otley". otley.onesuffolk.net. Otley Parish Council. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  5. Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir (1975) [1974]. Suffolk (2nd ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN 9780140710205.
  6. "Otley Hall Garden". Gardenvisit.com. Retrieved 29 January 2023.

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