Thorpe Hall (Thorpe-le-Soken)

Thorpe Hall was a manor house built in the Georgian style at Thorpe-le-Soken in Essex, England.

The Thorpe Manor estate belonged to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's until the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

[1] In 1723 it was bought by Stephen Martin who assumed the name and arms of Leake upon inheriting an estate from Admiral Sir John Leake; it remained in the Leake family – the most recent manor house was built between 1822 and 1825 for John Martin Leake – until 1913 when it was bought by Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy whose wife, Evelyn Byng, Viscountess Byng of Vimy, laid out the gardens.

[2] It was acquired by the Ministry of Defence at the start of World War II and then became the Lady Nelson Convalescent Home for employees of English Electric in 1951.

[1] Tangram Leisure demolished the manor and replaced it with a residential spa which was completed in December 2010.