Newe House

Newe House is a manor house dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century. It has two storeys and double attics, constructed of red brick. The building features a moulded brick string-course above the ground storey windows and a similar cornice band below the parapet. There are flanking external chimney-stacks with square detached diagonal shafts and a plaintiled roof. The front of the house showcases triple Dutch gables, with a central five-sided two-storey porch that has a round-arched rusticated doorway and a triangular pediment displaying the date 1622 and the arms of Spring above.

The upper storey includes a large canted bay with an early 20th-century cross window, which has triangular pediments replacing earlier sash windows. The flat roof of the bay is adorned with a brick cornice featuring five small lunettes. On either side of the porch, there are one four-light and one three-light mullion and transom window, with ovolo-moulded brick mullions and rusticated surrounds, finished with late 19th-century render. Each gable contains a four-light mullioned window with a small single-light window above. All windows are fitted with late 19th-century square leaded panes.

Inside the porch, there is a fine inner doorway with complex ovolo-moulding on the jambs and lintel. It is believed that Newe House was built for Sir Robert Bright, who acquired extensive lands in Pakenham and surrounding parishes from the Bacons in 1601. While the date 1622 is often associated with the entire construction, it is possible that the main house is older, with the porch and Dutch gables being later additions by Bright. The house passed to the Spring family in the late 1640s and served as a dower house, remaining in the family's ownership until the mid-19th century. Newe House is illustrated in Basil Oliver's book, 'Old Houses and Village Buildings in East Anglia', Plate LXVI.