Charles Brandon's Westhorpe: an Early Tudor Courtyard House in Suffolk

Gunn SJ, Lindley PG

This paper describes the courtyard house built in the 1520s and 1530s by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, at Westhorpe in Suffolk. Discussion is based on a newly-discovered survey of the house made in 1538 and on an eye-witness account by the antiquary Thomas Martin of its demolition in the eighteenth century.