Country Life magazine: 'A hall house in Suffolk that comes with plenty of space and a most-interesting name.
'Mockbeggars Hall can trace its name back to the 16th century, and has been substantially renovated by recent owners.
'Last week saw the launch onto the market of one of Suffolk’s most intriguing #countryhouses, the imposing Grade II*-listed Mockbeggars Hall — a secluded Jacobean mansion set on high ground to the south of the village of Claydon, with the A14 to the east and the valley of the River Gipping, a tributary of the Orwell, to the west.
'According to 19th-century historian J. R. Green, the name Mockbeggars can be traced to the late 16th and early 17th centuries, ‘when there was much complaining in the rural districts because the nobles and gentry flocked up to London, leaving their country houses empty and neglected, so that where in former times there had been feasting for rich and poor alike, a beggar could not now get a crust of bread. To the houses thus deserted was given the nickname of “Mockbeggar Hall”’.
'In his book The Norwich Road: An East Anglian Highway (1901), writer and illustrator Charles George Harper (1863–1943) describes Mockbeggars, Claydon, in the following terms: ‘Just before entering the village, an old mansion is glimpsed from the road, embowered in trees, a mansion which, on inquiry, the ingenious youth of Claydon declare to be “Mockbeggar Hall”. Claydon Hall is its true title, but the popular name has been handed down since many, many years, when the old house (not old then) long remained tenantless.'
Mockbeggars Hall is on the market with Jackson-Stops Ipswich with a guide price of £1,450,000.
https://www.jackson-stops.co.uk/properties/18437679/sales/ipswich
https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/a-hall-house-in-suffolk-that-comes-with-plenty-of-space-and-a-most-interesting-name-264914
