Manston Hall

Description: Manston Hall is a thatched former manor house mid C16th with later extensions. Three cell cross-passage entrance plan with later cross-wing. Above the fireplaces of the parlour and parlour chamber are wall paintings including excerpts from the Geneva bible of 1560. The earlier manor house, mentioned in The Domesday Book,  held significant land holdings, now much reduced. It paid tithes to the Abbey in Colchester. The house was restored and extended in the early C20th by Basil Oliver RA. The manor was held by the Sturgeon family from the C16 to C18th. They built the present house. The moat is probably of C13 or C14th origin. An extension was added in the C20th by the noted local architect Basil Oliver.The house is Grade II listed.

Manston History This brief history of Manston is reproduced with kind permission of the author Bryan Steward. A full version of the research by Vyvian Thomas is lodged in the Records Office at Bury St Edmunds.

Manston,togther with much of its land was sold in 1835. Manston Sale 1835

Litigation re thatching bill 1876 An argument about the invoice for thatching: should the house holder pay for the thatcher's beer?