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Glevering Hall is a historic house and estate approximately northwest of Wickham Market, in the parish of Hacheston, Suffolk, England. It was possessed at one time by the Abbey of Leiston. The present house was built in 1794 by Chaloner Arcedeckne, MP. Glevering Hall became a Grade II* listed building on 25 October 1951.HistoryThe manor of Glevering, or Glavering, appears to have been a hamlet to Hacheston. In the time of William the Conqueror, it was in the possession of Herveus Bituricensis, though William de Malet also had an estate at Glevering. In 1382, Gilbert de Pecbe gave it to the Abbey of Leiston, in Suffolk, and it remained in the abbey's possession until the dissolution of the monasteries. Henry VIII granted the estate to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. From his heirs, it became the dower of Anne of Cleves. After Thomas Seckford obtained it through a grant in fee, he sold it in 1564 to John Bull of Brodshaw Hall, in Sproughton; it continued in this family for several generations. The manor belonged to Framlingham Castle until it was sold by Theophilus Howard (d. 1640), Earl of Suffolk. In 1682, C. Radcliffe (or Radclyffe) was lord of the manor; after his death, it passed to his widow, Mary, and then to their son, Hugh. In 1744, Thomas Whimper, was lord; in 1777, it was John Whimper, of Alderton.