Little Massingham House

Little Massingham House is a country house built between 1904 and 1905 by architects Edmund Wimperis and Best for Mrs E.W. Birkbeck. The house is constructed of English bond red brick with rubbed brick and Ancaster stone dressings, topped with red Broseley tiled roofs. It has two storeys with attics and features seven bays on both the east and south facades. The design is in the style of around 1714 and was influenced by the owner's desire to replicate the design and character of an existing Georgian house in the same county, specifically Bixley Hall, which was visited by architects and clients in 1904 before its demolition.

The east entrance facade has three central advanced bays flanked by two recessed two-bay wings. The center features two ground floor and two first floor two-pane width sashes, along with a central first floor three-pane sash. There is a central pedimented drafted stone doorcase with a panelled door and fanlight. The wings contain two ground floor sashes and one first floor sash, with one blocked window. All windows are sashes with glazing bars set under flat rubbed brick arches. A first floor plat-band and wooden modillion cornice at the eaves continue into a central pediment. There are two segmental-headed sashed dormers and one pediment-arched headed sash, along with two ridge stacks.

The south garden front features two bay advanced wings and a three bay recessed center with a hooded stone doorcase and two ridge stacks. There is a single storey colonnaded loggia and a pilastered garden room with a semi-circular lunette in the gable. Single storey service areas are located at the west and north sides of the house. The building was constructed alongside stables and a lodge at a cost of £7,624, with Cubitt and Gotts of Ipswich as the builders and carving work done by Jago of London. The contemporary garden layout includes two avenues of pate d'oie to the south.