Ickworth House - State Rooms - Smoking Room - golden clock

An afternoon's visit to Ickworth near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, another National Trust place to visit.

Ickworth House is a country house near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. It is a neoclassical building set in parkland. The house was the residence of the Marquess of Bristol before being sold to the National Trust in 1998.

The house, built between 1795 and 1829, was formerly the chief dwelling of an estate owned by the Hervey family, later Marquesses of Bristol, since 1467. The building was the creation of Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry (known as the Bishop-Earl), who commissioned the Italian architect Antonio Asprucci to design him a classical villa in the Suffolk countryside. Originally it had been planned as an art gallery but the Earl's collection was seized by Napoleon. The Earl died in 1803, leaving the completion of house to his successor.

In 1956, the house, park, and a large endowment were given to the National Trust in lieu of death duties. As part of the handover agreement, a 99-year lease on the 60-room East Wing was given to the Marquess of Bristol. However, in 1998 the 7th Marquess of Bristol sold the remaining lease on the East Wing to the National Trust. He was succeeded by his half-brother Frederick William Augustus Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol (born 19 October 1979). The National Trust refused to sell the remaining lease term back to the 8th Marquess, thereby contravening the Letter of Wishes which states that the head of the family should always be offered whatever accommodation he chooses at Ickworth.

The family's once private East Wing is now run as The Ickworth Hotel on a lease from the National Trust. Apartments, also leased from the Trust, are in located in the Dower House in the grounds.

The West Wing at Ickworth House went uncompleted until 2006, when a joint partnership between the National Trust and Sodexo Prestige led to its renovation and opening as a centre for conferences and events. The first wedding in the property's history took place in 2006.

Grade I Listed Building

Ickworth House

A look around the inside of Ickworth House.

A look round the State Rooms.

Smoking Room

golden clock

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Taken in: UK / England / St. Edmundsbury District / Ickworth (show map)

Taken on: June 17, 2019

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Grade I Listed Building

Grade I Listed

Large country mansion

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Mario Asprucci

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Frederick William Hervey, 5th Earl and 1st Marquis of Bristol

Stuccoed brick; slated and leaded roofs

Central rotunda

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Ionic columns

State Rooms

Smoking Room

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