Bed and breakfast in a fine 18th century rectory on the approaches to the small, quiet village of Alderton, which lies off the beaten track, on the Deben Peninsula, in Suffolk
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A brief history of The Old Rectory, Alderton
The house, on the Suffolk coast, was designed in 1772 by John Carr of York (1723-1807) for the Revd. Richard Frank. Carr became the best known architect of his day in the North of England working on many of the great houses. Perhaps his best known work is the Crescent in Buxton.
Unusually the new rectory was sited well away from both the church and the village, and as such appears to be more akin to a gentleman’s villa inset into a small landscaped park. The house is constructed of a good red brick and the roof is covered with expensive and durable Westmorland slate. The interior with its fine proportioned reception rooms had its first “makeover” in the Regency period when Richard Frank’s nephew was Rector.
The house remained the property of the Church until it was sold in 1932 to the family who own it today.