Heritage Open Day: One of the oldest buildings in this Suffolk wool town, a 14th century house built for clothiers and then mirroring the changing fortunes of Lavenham, it holds the Gayer-Anderson collection of art and artifacts. in a museum that feels like a home. Step inside Little Hall, one of the oldest timber framed buildings in the best preserved of the Suffolk wool towns. Open year-round for groups, its history mirrors the changing fortunes of Lavenham.
Built about 1390 for a family of clothiers, later enlarged and improved, and then 'modernised' in Tudor times by the addition of a brick chimney, an upper floor over the central hall and glazed windows.