Benacre Hall is a Grade II listed country house and estate in Benacre, Suffolk. The current house is high Georgian, with Palladian geometric influence and figures externally roughly as it stood on its building, in 1764. Until 2008, it was the seat of the Gooch baronets.
History In the Tudor reign of Queen Elizabeth, Benacre was a lesser possession, likely fully tenanted, of Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre.
Henry North, of Laxfield, descended from the noble North family and purchased it in the Stuart reign of Charles I. In 1708, Edward North, dying without issue, left it to Thomas Carthew, his wife's relation, who in 1721, rebuilt the house which it is confirmed was for own use. From his son the estate was bought in 1745 by Sir Thomas Gooch, one of the successive Gooch baronets and it has remained in that family since then.
When Major Sir Timothy Gooch MBE, 13th Baronet, late the Life Guards, died on 9 April 2008, he separated the 7,000-acre family estate from the baronetcy, leaving it to his widow and daughters Lucinda and Victoria, rather than his heir Arthur Gooch,The Gooch family of Benacre Estate - A brief history, benacre.com, accessed 6 May 2026 who was then aged over seventy and also had only daughters.'Gooch, Brig. Sir Arthur (Brian Sherlock Heywood)' in Who's Who (UK), online edition by Oxford University Press, accessed 25 May 2026
Architecture In 1827, Henry Davy wrote:
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Suffolk heritage assets: Benacre Hall including stables and medieval deer park