Monument record PAL 013 - St Johns, now Park House
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Summary
St Johns: small landscape park, now disparked, half in Palgrave and half in Wortham, shown on the OS 1:10560 map and on the OS 1st edition map of 1837, but not shown on J Hodskinson's Map of Suffolk 1783.
Location
| Grid reference | Centred TM 0987 7743 (797m by 445m) Centred on |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | TM07NE |
| Civil Parish | PALGRAVE, MID SUFFOLK, SUFFOLK |
| Civil Parish | WORTHAM, MID SUFFOLK, SUFFOLK |
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Type and Period (2)
Full Description
St Johns: small landscape park, now disparked, half in Palgrave and half in Wortham, shown on the OS 1:10560 map and on the OS 1st edition map of 1837, but not shown on J Hodskinson's Map of Suffolk 1783. House named on the modern 1:10000 map as Park House, with St John's Farm adjacent. Most of the park is now arable, with field names Large Park & Little Park. House is early C19, grey brick, 5 bays with a semicircular porch on Roman Doric columns. Tripartite window above it, with a segmental arch (S1). House belonged to the Harrison family in the C19.
See also PAL 003 for the name St Johns.
Sources/Archives (2)
- <S1> SSF16083 Bibliographic reference: Pevsner N & Radcliffe E. 1974. The Buildings of England: Suffolk. Pevsner N & Radcliffe E, Buildings of England - Suffolk, 1975, 390.
- <S2> SSF6469 (No record type): Fletcher R (ed), Richard Cobbold, The Biography of a Victorian Village (Wortham 1860), 1977, 84-5, i.
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Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
Jun 9 2017 2:07PM