Haughley Park And Attached Garden Walls On Three Sides

This is a large country house, likely built around 1620-30 for Sir John Sulyard. It underwent significant remodelling in the early 19th century and was partially reconstructed following a major fire around 1970. The house is constructed of red brick in English bond, with plastered bands defining the first and second floors. The corners feature shallow pilasters topped with circular finials carved from brick, all incorporated into the crowstepped parapet gables. The roof is tiled. Three original chimneys remain, featuring tall, triple octagonal shafts, rebuilt in the 19th and 20th centuries using red brick and topped with star designs.

The house is two storeys high with attics. The windows are mullioned and transomed, set within stuccoed brick surrounds and have moulded pediments. Most windows have six lights, with wrought iron casements and leaded glazing, while those in the cross-wing gables are paired. A pair of two-storey splayed bay windows project from the main range, each featuring a cross-window and an embattled parapet. Dormer windows, matching the cross-wings, were added in the 20th century above each bay. The original three-storey entrance porch mirrors the detail of the left-hand gable, with a round-arched stuccoed doorway, moulded imposts and a pediment. A pair of round windows sit above the entrance, restored but believed to be of 18th century or earlier origin.

The left-hand section of the house survived the fire of around 1970 and retains fine complete 17th-century wainscotting with a fireplace surround and pilasters. The right-hand cross-wing was substantially remodelled, or possibly rebuilt, in the early 19th century using Flemish bond brickwork with segmental bays and sash windows on the north elevation. A staircase wing at the rear of the main range features a large mullioned and transomed window. The well staircase was destroyed by the fire and replicated in the 20th century, along with many 18th and 19th-century features at the north end.

Attached to the house are garden walls, primarily of red brick. At the east front, 17th-century walls extend 17 meters from each corner, one returning southwards for 36 meters, and further extended in the 19th and 20th centuries to form a walled garden. A wall runs westwards from the northwest corner, connecting to a 130-meter length of predominantly 18th-century walling. This walling is in Flemish bond brickwork on its east face and flint rubble on its west. A late 19th-century stable range with lodgings above is attached to the rear of the service wing at the south end; it was remodelled in the mid-20th century to create office space.