page_title: Kesgrave Hall
section_title: Kesgrave Hall School  (1976 - 1993)
hierarchical_section_title: Kesgrave Hall / Kesgrave Hall School  (1976 - 1993)
caption_attribution_description: English: Kesgrave Hall School Kesgrave Hall School buildings
context_page_description: Kesgrave Hall is a country house located in woodlands north of the suburban village of Kesgrave, which itself is on the eastern outskirts of Ipswich, in Suffolk, England. It was constructed in 1812 by William Cunliffe-Shawe, and has been extended since, notably by the addition of a northern extension. The building has five large rooms downstairs, with another two in the northern extension, with a further seven upstairs.
  The building is set in 38 acres of grounds, which includes woodlands, marsh and fields; a stream, which rises on Playford Heath, north of Kesgrave village, and joins the River Fynn, itself a tributary of the Deben, at Martlesham, runs west to east through the grounds.
  The Hall has had several uses during its life, including housing five different boarding schools. Since late April 2008, the building has been used as a restaurant and hotel and owned as a joint venture by the Hills Building Group and the Milsom Hotel Group.
context_section_description: The fourth school at the  Hall, known as Kesgrave Hall School opened in 1976.  This was also a boys' boarding school and was founded by teachers from a boys' junior boarding school, Heanton in Devon.  The teachers found that boys from that school were ill-served by their secondary schools.
  As with Heanton, Kesgrave Hall School was established for boys with a strong academic ability but with perceived emotional or behavioural problems.  It had a strong academic focus, but also taught vocational subjects such as woodwork.
  The school closed in 1993, at a time when a number of similar establishments in the UK were closing.
caption: Kesgrave Hall, 1988 - Photograph Coertesy of Nicholas Mutton
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