NHER 22260 (Building record) - Little Massingham House

Manor on (S1).
April 1987. Listed, Grade II.
1904 to 1905 by Edmund Wimperis and J.R. Best, for Mrs E.W. Birkbeck. Intended to reproduce character and design of Bixley Hall which the architects and client recorded before demolition in 1904. English bond red brick, Ancaster stone dressings. Broseley reds on roof, two storeys and attic, seven bay facades - imitates style of around 1714. East façade has three central advanced bays and recessed two bay wings. Central pedimented doorcase. All windows sashes. First floor platband and wooden eaves modillion cornice continued as pediment. Sash in pediment between two dormers. Two ridge stacks. South garden front has two bay advanced wings, three bay recessed centre with hooded stone doorcase. Single storey colonaded loggia and pilastered garden room with lunette in gable. Single storey services west and north. Built at cost of £7624 with stables and lodge by Cubitts and Gotts of Ipswich, carving by Jago of London. Contemporary garden layout.
See (S2).
Information from (S3).
E. Rose (NAU), 24 February 1986.

B. Cushion (NLA) states that the house and gardens stand on the site of a brickworks marked on (S4). There is no such marking on the (S5), though a track is shown approaching a blank plot from the east (the present drive).
E. Rose (NLA), 13 January 1995.