Garden Open This Bank Holiday Weekend – 1st to 3rd May
We cannot yet open the house but we will open the garden this weekend, from 2pm to 4pm on Saturday 1st May, Sunday 2nd May, Monday 3rd May.
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Planning to Open in May
Little Hall has been closed for nearly 18 months but now at last there is some hope that we will be able to open again at the end of May. The current plan is to open Friday to Sunday afternoons, 1pm to 4pm, from the 22nd May 2021, subject to government restrictions. The house and …
Little Hall in the snow
Recently Lavenham and Little Hall was in the grip of a biting easterly wind. There had been snow on the ground for the whole week, accompanied by freezing temperatures. In 1961 Reginald Brill had just arrived as warden of the newly established Gayer Anderson Hostel for Art Students and painted Snow in the Garden – …
Little Hall Shop
At the time of writing, the museum and shop are currently closed to visitors, although we are hoping to be able to open in some way in the Spring. However, we are exploring the possibility of selling some items from the shop through the website. There are several different collections which reflect some of the …
Little Hall on Screen
To start what we hope will be a happier new year, whilst you cannot visit Little Hall in person, why not visit it on the screen. Little Hall has been a popular backdrop for films for over 50 years. The very latest, released before Christmas, was an adaptation by Pelham Elliott of Anthony Trollope’s novel …
Object for October – The Gayer Anderson Crests
On the external walls of Little Hall there are a number of pargetted crests set into the plasterwork. These depict a lion and a tree and are the combined emblems of the Gayer Anderson family. The tree symbol is said to come from Egypt and signify ‘home’. Thomas Gayer Anderson wrote in his house guide: …
Object for September – Painting of a young man, by Glyn Philpot RA
Portrait of a Young Man by Glyn Warren Philpot (1884-1937) In the Well Room at Little Hall, Lavenham, the former home of twins Robert and Thomas Gayer-Anderson, hangs a portrait of a young man by the artist Glyn Warren Philpot. The portrait, a gift to Thomas Gayer-Anderson from Philpot is undated but appears stylistically to …
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Garden Opening continues for September
Over the last 650 years Little Hall has had many and varied owners. The last residents before the property finally passed out of private hands were twin brothers named Gayer Anderson. They were distinguished army officers who bought the Great House in 1924. The range of buildings now known as Little Hall came as part …
Object for August – The Kite Flyer, Thomas Gayer Anderson
Thomas Gayer-Anderson was a gifted artist who worked in a range of media, including sculpture. At Little Hall he created a studio within a first floor room of the house, and a workshop within the garden. It was probably within the latter that he made a model in clay, of a naked boy, to which …
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Garden Opening this weekend
LITTLE HALL WELCOMES YOU TO VISIT OUR BEAUTIFUL GARDEN. Little Hall’s beautiful hidden garden will be open to visitors FREE of CHARGE during the weekends of 1st-2nd and 8th-9th August, between 2-4pm. Little Hall’s beautiful hidden garden will be open to visitors FREE of CHARGE during the weekends of August, Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holiday …