Haughley Park is a privately owned Grade 1 listed Jacobean manor house.

1620: Built by Sir John Sulyard whose family had been granted the land by
Mary Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII. For almost two centuries the house
remained in the Sulyard family, and was the centre of a 2500 acre
agricultural estate, mostly tenanted.

1818: Now reduced to around 700 acres the estate was sold to William
Crawford a successful lawyer. A fire gutted the north end of the house in
1820, and this was rebuilt in the Georgian style. His son, the Rev. William,
added a long Stable Wing to the house, and left bequests for village charities
and for the building of the schools in Haughley and Wetherden.

1867 to 1918: Estate now 467 acres and owned by Arthur Pretyman
and his wife.

1918 to 1924: House empty and in the hands of estate agents.

1924 to 1956: Owned by Turner Henderson, a retired tea planter, big
game hunter and animal lover! On his death the house was left to London
Zoo for use as a safari park - however they turned it down as unsuitable.

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