We are closed for the winter and hope to reopen shortly before Easter. Keep up to date through our News pages.
If you visit us you’ll meet our ‘front of house’ volunteers but Little Hall wouldn’t be the success it is without the work done behind the scenes. Amongst our unsung heroes are the gardeners who keep the surroundings as impressive as the contents. Our longest serving volunteer is one of these, Alan Gilpin and his …
September has been busy at Little Hall with visitors from near and far and several groups coming to see what we have to offer. The season has been going well so far. We have welcomed nearly 1500 visitors over the four months we have been open.At the time of writing, we have just had a …
We have now had two months of opening and welcomed nearly 550 visitors from many parts. The shop is proving popular too and there are some new items to tempt you as well as the old favourites. Some of our special visitors to the garden in early July included Catherine and Marek who had their …
We have now had four weeks of opening and welcomed over 250 visitors over 11 days. The house façade is looking very smart after its latest redecoration and the garden is looking wonderful too. The wet weather in May followed by the hot spell in June has created a riot of colour all tended by …
Little Hall has been closed for nearly 18 months but now at last we are open again. We will open Friday to Sunday afternoons, 1pm to 4pm, from the 22nd May 2021, subject to any changes in the government restrictions. Our season usually closes at the end of October. The house and its collection have …
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 – …
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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …
Object for September – Painting of a young man, by Glyn Philpot RA Read More »
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 …
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 …
Object for August – The Kite Flyer, Thomas Gayer Anderson Read More »
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 …
When the Gayer-Anderson brothers undertook the restoration of Little Hall in the 1930s they fitted out a number of its rooms with architectural features and decorative pieces. The items were collected on their travels in Egypt and the Middle East. One such room, which they called ‘the Study’, now known as the Panelled Room, was fitted …
Object for July – Decorative Bridal Mirror Box Panels Read More »
Lavenham Hidden Gardens on Sunday 9th June, 2019. This was our chance to show off our ‘hidden gem’ which lurks behind the wall at the top of Barn Street. Over 600 adults, children and assorted dogs came to look round. The sun gods shone on us after a soaking the day before and the day …
Little Hall is nearly 650 years old and over time has had many and varied owners. The last residents before the property finally passed out of private hands and into the possession of the Suffolk Building Preservation Trust in 1975, were twin brothers named Gayer Anderson. They bought the property in 1925, restored it as …
While Little Hall has been unable to open some of our volunteers have been kept busy doing tasks that can be done from a home computer. The result is a database and the beginning of a digital framework of the whole collection at Little Hall which includes the newly cleaned library books. Back in 2017 …
Our planned exhibition to mark the commemoration of VE day on the weekend of the 8th/9th and 10th May unfortunately cannot now take place. However, we would like to bring you some elements of it here on our newly refreshed website. In Object of the Month our volunteer Catherine Smith explains the story behind the Chest of Drawers in …
Now that we’ve upgraded our website we’re going to introduce an object each month that we think will interest you. As you may have seen elsewhere, Little Hall’s Second World War history was to feature in an exhibition this month so our object for May relates to this era. The Chest of Drawers with a …
Little Hall
Market Place
Lavenham
Suffolk
C010 9QZ
Little Hall is owned by the
Suffolk Building Preservation Trust
(reg. charity 265212, Company no 1089324)
Little Hall
Market Place
Lavenham
Suffolk
C010 9QZ
Little Hall is owned by the
Suffolk Building Preservation Trust
(reg. charity 265212, Company no 1089324)
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