Past Events

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  –

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

Past item from the lockdown year, 2020 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

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

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

In 2019 we were pleased to welcome Michael Sutherill to Little Hall as our new curator. Michael, now retired, was formerly a curator with the National Trust and prior to that an Inspector of Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings with English Heritage. Michael is supporting us in delivering a project to remove mould from the

In August 2011 we hosted a wonderful exhibition of glass art, entitled Art in Glass, showing the work of a local group of glass artists centred on the studios of Rosella Chester in Colchester. Their work was distributed around the house and garden, and the garden in particular provided a stunning back drop for the