Pictures of buildings mentioned in the “Suffolk” volume of “The Buildings of England” series by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner.
Part of this village is on the busy A12 road but turn off and there is quite a bit to see. However, it was not easy to find many of the entries in Pevsner. Those that were fairly obvious and accessible are shown below.
Lady Katherine Grey, aged 27, died of tuberculosis in Cockfield Hall (the Tudor one) under the care of its owner Sir Owen Hopton and his wife at 9 o-clock in the morning of 27th January 1568. Lady Katherine (Catherine) was the sister of Lady Jane Grey and grandaughter of Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk and his wife Mary, former Queen of France and herself daughter of Henry 7. She had spent the last six-and-a-half years in prison or under house arrest - and the whole of her life under the doom of her royal blood (Alison Plowden, Lady Jane Grey - pages 180/181).
