Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds 2011-09-11 009

Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Designed by Robert Adam for Professor John Symonds, a Cambridge don and Recorder of Bury St Edmunds. Symonds was the younger son of a Suffolk rector; his mother was from the Spring family of Pakenham (info from Oxford DNB: dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/26886 ). Begun in 1773, a year before Adam's other Bury building, the Market Cross, so perhaps Symonds introduced the architect to the town. Listing…  (read more)

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Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds 2011-09-11 009

View from SSE. Begun in 1773 to designs of Robert Adam; for further history, see set page . 19th-century wing on the right; according to the original drawings, the E. front initially had a two-storey bow to match the one just visible on the W. front.

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Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds 2011-09-11 005

N. front. Begun in 1773 to designs of Robert Adam; for further history, see set page . 19th-century wing on left; the Venetian window lights the staircase. Originally the stairs were behind the left-hand window in the main block, and the original drawings show the E. front with a two-storey bow to match the one on the West (just visible on the right of this shot). The porch and the windows flanking it must be 19th-century alterations. Much of the original exterior "trim" is wooden, including the pilasters (according to the listing description ); note the condition of the cornice above the central window on the first floor.

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Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds 2011-09-11 004

W. front. Begun in 1773 to designs of Robert Adam; for further history, see set page . This front originally had a view to the town, and the main rooms were concentrated on this side. On the ground floor an eating room extended the full width of the front (with the N and S ends screened by columns); this survives as the school chapel. The first floor room seems to have been the original drawing room, with apsed ends N and S in the original drawings, although these do not survive. According to the original plans, the E. front originally had a similar bow for symmetry but it was used to form closets, rather than being expressed internally.

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Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds 2011-09-11 003

S. front. Begun in 1773 to designs of Robert Adam; for further history, see set page . The left-hand Venetian window lights the eating room; the central door opens into an ante-room (and was at one stage covered by a conservatory whose ghost is still visible); the room behind the right-hand Venetian window also has good original plasterwork and what is said to be an original bookcase (see links to photos from c.1890 in comment below).