ITH few important country houses being offered for sale in Suffolk so far this year, Mark Rimell of Strutt & Parker (020–7318 5025) has set the ball rolling with the launch onto the market in last week’s COUNTRY LIFE of historic Priory Hall, which sits in 21 acres of glorious gardens and grounds on the edge of the ancient market town of Hadleigh, halfway between the larger towns of Sudbury and Ipswich. He quotes a guide price of £3.5 million for the impressive Tudor-style house, once owned by the Priory Church of Canterbury Cathedral, which is described by Historic England as ‘a large much-restored building with a probable 16th-century origin… the front has a number of gables and upper storeys projecting [with] all timber framing exposed and all chimney stacks built in 16th-century manner’. Previously known as The Manor, Hadleigh, Priory
