Farm outbuildings at Desning Hall - geograph

Desning Hall was a

manor house A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were usually held the lord's manorial courts, communal mea ...

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, in

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, England, dating from

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times. Desning Hall's last resident was Sidney Arthur King who left the property in 1927. The house then stood vacant, becoming derelict, until the early 1980s when it was demolished.

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External links

Desning Hall Farm
The National Archives
BARN AT THE NORTH WEST CORNER OF THE FARMSTEAD AT DESNING HALL
Historic England Country houses in Suffolk Gazeley {{Suffolk-struct-stub