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Shrubland Palace, Coddenham, Suffolk, is an historic
English Palace The English Palace () was a Neoclassical architecture, neoclassical palace within the Peterhof Palace complex in Petergof, Russia. Sometimes, it is also named the New Peterhof palace (). It was Giacomo Quarenghi’s first important commission ...
with planned gardens in
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, England, built in the 1770s. The Palace was used by the Royal Family members and briefly reopened as a hotel, restaurant and spa in 2015 but shut in early 2017. The parkland and formal gardens of the Palace are Grade I listed on the
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, and the hall itself is listed
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on the
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.


Current usage

In recent years, Shrubland Palace has been used as a restaurant, hotel, and wedding venue. However, Shrubland Palace, also known as Shrubland Hall, does not appear on Suffolk County Council's list of approved wedding venues.


Ownership and legal issues

The estate, also known as Shrubland Palace, is owned by the British Institute of Technology, which was fined £3,600 in September 2024 for the unauthorised erection of two structures on the historic property without planning permission.


Conservation status

In November 2021, Shrubland Hall was added to
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's Heritage at Risk Register due to concerns about its deteriorating condition, including water damage and eroding stonework. The listing raised awareness of the urgent need for repairs and proper maintenance to preserve the estate's historical significance.


History

The first recorded owner of the estate was
Robert de Shrubeland The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, reno ...
, although there is evidence of occupation on the site since the Roman period. The previous Tudor-style Shrubland Hall was built by the Booth family in the early 16th century. The estate was later acquired by the Little family, and passed to the Bacon family when in 1581 Helen Little, daughter and heiress of Thomas Little (by his wife Elizabeth Lytton, a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert Lytton of
Knebworth House Knebworth House is an English country house in the parish of Knebworth in Hertfordshire, England. It is a Listed building#Categories of listed building, Grade II* listed building. Its gardens are also listed Register of Historic Parks and Gar ...
in Hertfordshire), married Sir Edward Bacon (d.1618), the third son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal to Queen Elizabeth I, and a half-brother of the philosopher and statesman Sir
Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued for the importance of nat ...
. The present Grade II* listed hall was designed by James Paine for the Revd. John Bacon in the early 1770s. His heir was his younger brother Rev. Nicholas Bacon (d.1796), Vicar of Coddenham, who died without issue and was the last in the male line, whose funeral hatchment survives in Coddenham Church (right). The house was then bought by
Sir William Fowle Middleton, 1st Baronet Sir William Fowle Middleton, 1st Baronet (8 November 1748 – 26 December 1829) was an English Member of Parliament and High Sheriff. He was born William Middleton in Charleston, South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, the eldest son of Will ...
, whose son and heir, Sir William Fowle Middleton, 2nd Baronet, commissioned architect John Gandy-Deering to remodel it in the early 1830s. There was further remodelling of the building for Sir William between 1849 and 1855 by Sir
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, who also created the terraced gardens. Paine's central block was built in 3 storeys with a 5-bay frontage, to which Gandy-Deering added 3 further bays to either side. The whole is constructed of Gault brick with dressings of limestone and stucco. The parkland was styled by
Humphry Repton Humphry Repton (21 April 1752 – 24 March 1818) was the last great designer of the classic phase of the English landscape garden, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown. His style is thought of as the precursor of the more intric ...
and still retains the deer park and walled garden. After Sir William's death in 1860, the property passed to his cousin Sir George Nathaniel Broke Middleton, and from him in 1882 to his niece Jane Anne Broke, eldest daughter of Captain Charles Acton Vere-Broke, and her husband
James Saumarez, 4th Baron de Saumarez James St Vincent Saumarez, 4th Baron de Saumarez (17 July 1843 – 25 April 1937), was a British diplomat and peer, for some forty-five years a member of the House of Lords. Early life Saumarez was born in London on 17 July 1843, while his pare ...
. The Hall was used as a convalescent home during the
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and the Old Hall as a brigade HQ during the Second World War. In the 1960s, the 6th Baron de Saumarez established a health clinic in the property which continued in the time of the 7th Baron. Shrubland Hall Health Clinic operated in the hall adjoining Shrubland Park Gardens until 2 April 2006, when the Shrubland estate, totalling some , was put up for sale with an asking price of £23 million. Until then the Italian-style gardens which include Grade II listed features were open to the public as a visitor attraction. In 2010, the estate was sold in 42 separate lots. As of 2012, the Hall itself was used as residential quarters for the private higher education establishment, the British Institute of Technology & E-commerce (BITE) but in 2014 was re-opened as a hotel. In 2015, the Hall was advertised for sale at an asking price of £6,500,000.24 bedroom house for sale Shrubland Park, Coddenham, Ipswich, Suffolk £6,500,000
at rightmove.co.uk, accessed 9 November 2015.


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