The Building of Kentwell Hall is an Exclusive Limited Tour by Patrick Phillips KC

Patrick will be describing Lutons, the previous moated house on the site along with the following:

John Clopton’s Works

• Broadening the moat & transforming it by brick-lining into a symbol of status.

• Mason and brick-makers

• Building in brick. Why and how done ? Clamps & firing.

• Adding a new service range on the new moat wall

• How and why he built a new House

• Its layout as a single typical Hall House.

• Its distinct features: brick, size, large many light windows and chimneys

• A House with two distinct fronts and no back

• A free standing kitchen

Sir William Clopton’s Works

• Added a off th end of the House

• Later added the West Wing

• How he form the parts into a then unique symmetrical House

• How this made the first Open Courtyard House.

• How he extended the wings and added with projecting wings and later West Wing

• The addition of the towers

• Bringing the Kitchen Into the House

• Guardrobes function and operation

• Adding stables, barn and gatehouse.

Later Works

• Adding a Long Gallery

• Making the single pitch roof into a double pitch.

• Sir Thomas Robinson’s 17th C works

• Richard Moore’s words of about 1800

• Hart Logan’s Works of 1825

• PP’s works since 1972.