Breccles Hall, (also known as Breckles Hall), Thetford, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

An early 20th-century garden partly designed by Edwin Lutyens, set within the framework of a 16th-century manor garden, beside an early 20th-century woodland garden.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Breccles Hall sits between the villages of Breckles and Lower Stow Bedon, about 4 kilometres east of the A1075, midway between Watton and Thetford. The 5 hectare site lies in a rural part of Norfolk on the edge of the Brecklands with its characteristic open moor and pine landscape, Breckles Moor being just to the south of the site. The land all around this area is very flat, as is the registered site, and is given over mainly to farming and forestry. An opening in the woodland along the southern boundary gives views over the farmland beyond. Breccles Hall is surrounded by farmland, its eastern boundary being formed by a small tributary of the Breck whilst to the north-west lies St Margaret's church. The east, north and south boundaries of the site are enclosed by woodland and the west by the high 16th-century garden wall. To the north are service buildings and a small paddock.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Country Life, 26 (13 November 1909), pp 670-8; (20 November 1909), pp 706-13; 83 (19 February 1938), pp 194-9

G Jekyll, Garden Ornament (1918), p 33

N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: North-west and South Norfolk (1962), p 96

J Kenworthy-Browne et al, Burke's and Savills Guide to Country Houses III, (1981), p 94

Journal of Garden History 11, (1991), nos 1 and 2, pp 23-5

Breccles Hall, guide leaflet, (no date)

Maps

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1883; 2nd edition published 1906

Archival items

Sale catalogue, 1910 (BRE658.844 BRE), (Norfolk Local Studies Library)
 

Description written: January 1999

Edited: February 2001