Heveningham Hall is a Grade I listed building in Heveningham

Heveningham

Heveningham is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located four miles south-west of Halesworth, in 2005 it had a population of 120....

, Suffolk

Suffolk

Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...

 that was built in 1780. The east wing was gutted by fire in June 1984.

The hall and grounds were bought in 1994 by Foxtons

Foxtons

Foxtons is a London and Surrey estate agent with 32 offices, dealing with both lettings and sales. It was founded by Jon Hunt in 1981 and was acquiredby private equity firm BC Partners in 2007 for £390m....

-founder Jon Hunt

Jon Hunt

Jonathan Hunt, aka Jon Hunt, is a British Estate Agent who founded the Estate Agency, Foxtons.He has a country mansion in Suffolk called Heveningham Hall. He now owns Ocubis, the London serviced office business...

 and his wife for use as a family home. The Hunts have carried out extensive work to restore the building and return the grounds to the original Capability Brown

Capability Brown

Lancelot Brown , more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest gardener". He designed over 170 parks, many of which still endure...

designs.

The hall is also the location for the annual Heveningham Hall Country Fair, which raises money for local charity causes through the Heveningham Hall Country Fair Trust.

External links

• Heveningham Hall Country Fair