Rendlesham Hall was a large manor house in the village of Rendlesham in

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History

The hall was built in the pointed style in 1780A Vision of Britain through time
University of Portsmouth and two lodges, Woodbridge Lodge and Ivy Lodge, were added in 1790. The hall was acquired by Peter Thellusson, a wealthy banker, in the name of his son, in 1796.Our vanishing country houses
/ref> The son, Peter Thellusson, 1st Baron Rendlesham, who went into politics as a Member of Parliament, occupied the hall. The hall was destroyed by fire in 1830 and was rebuilt in Jacobean style to a design by

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. The works, which were carried out by Lucas BrothersCharles Thomas Lucas at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
/ref> were completed in 1870. The new building had eight reception rooms, including a ballroom, a conservatory, twenty-five principal bedrooms with dressing rooms, nine secondary and thirteen servants' bedrooms, five bathrooms, eleven lavatories and extensive domestic offices. There were of grounds with tennis and croquet lawns, and a walled kitchen garden in a park which extended to . The 5th Lord Rendlesham died in 1911, and the hall was put up for sale in 1920, but there were no bidders. In 1923 the hall was sold for use as a

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, in which use it remained until the

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, when it was occupied by the

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. For over 80 years the hall had played a major role in the social life of

, but after

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it stood empty, and it was finally demolished in 1949.

Images

File:RendleshamHouseEastEnd.jpg, The east end of the house File:RendleshamHouseNorthEnd.jpg, The north end, showing the main entrance File:RendleshamHouseNorthEnd2.jpg, The north end File:RendleshamHouseSouthEnd.jpg, The south end File:RendleshamHouseWestEnd.jpg, The west end, showing the greenhouse File:Rendlesham Hall.jpg, Rendlesham Hall c. 1800

References

External links

Photographs of Rendlesham Hall
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