Lanwades Hall

Lanwades Hall is a trust headquarters that was formerly a large country house, built around 1907 for James Larnack, J.P. The building is designed in the style of a large Tudor manor house with Tudorbethan details. It is mainly two storeys high with attics, and features a four-storey tower on the right side. The structure is made of red brick with buff limestone dressings, showcasing a Flemish gable on the left and a crow-stepped gable on the right of the hall range. The parapets are crenellated and topped with limestone copings and cornices. The roofs are plain tiled, adorned with prominent red brick chimneys in the 16th-century style, some of which have three circular shafts with moulded brick sunk panels, star-tops, and moulded octagonal bases. The windows are mullioned and transomed, framed in moulded limestone, with some featuring hood-moulds. Each window light has an arched head and leaded casements. A notable feature is a two-storey splayed bay that resembles a 16th-century oriel, made of limestone with traceried heads. The entrance porch is flat-roofed and two storeys high, with an arched and hood-moulded limestone doorway and a framed and boarded oak entrance door. Inside, the dining room, staircase, and reception hall are of particular interest, showcasing fine oak joinery in the 16th-century style. Notably, King Edward VII stayed at Lanwades Hall while attending the Newmarket Races.