Little Greyfriars

Little Greyfriars was originally a wing of a large early Victorian house which was divided into 3 detached properties in the early 1950s.

Map of Little Greyfriars Location 

Dunwich is a picturesque village which benefits from its proximity to the beach and is home to the thriving Ship Inn. The area is a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and provides numerous opportunities for walking including on the Suffolk Coastal path towards the rspb Minsmere Reserve, Walberswick and Southwold as well as Dunwich Heath.

Remains of Greyfriars Priory south range buildings, probably the refectory

Greyfriars, Dunwich was a Franciscan friary in Dunwich in the English county of Suffolk. The friary was founded before 1277 by Richard FitzJohn and his wife Alice and dissolved in 1538. The original site, which had 20 friars in 1277 when it first appears in records, was threatened by coastal erosion and the friary was moved inland in 1289. Many of the buildings are believed to have been destroyed on dissolution, with the remains used as a house, a town hall and a jail at various times. Modern remains consist of a precinct wall, two gatehouses and some two-storey walls believed to be the remains of a cloister building, possibly a refectory or infirmary building.
The site was partly excavated in the 1930s and 1990s, with geophysical surveys being carried out on the site.The site was surveyed in 2011 as part of a dig by archaeological television programme Time Team. A geophysical survey using ground-penetrating radar confirmed a range of wall features and other anomalies in the precinct and trenches uncovered carved medieval stonework and medieval window glass fragments. Geophysical surveys suggest that the friary church may have been up to 60 metres in length.

Dunwich Greyfriars gateway

the-entrance-arch

Little Greyfriars 

Entrance Hall

Drawing Room

Drawing Room

Sitting Room

Kitchen

Bedroom

Grounds

Woodland

Walled Garden

Panoramic Views

Panoramic Views

Floorplan