28th & 29th
JUNE 2025
Suffolk, England
The Event
Inaugurated in 2016, Heveningham Concours has become one of the UK’s finest annual motor car and aeroplane shows. It is held at Heveningham Hall in Suffolk where around fifty remarkable cars are displayed on the garden terraces together with a dozen or so historic propeller aircraft on grounds nearby. Heveningham Concours also presents Horsepower Hill, a run for all sorts of amazing cars along the estate’s parkland road, as well as the Heveningham Tour, a 50-mile drive for the Concours entrants through the Suffolk countryside with a stop for lunch. The event takes place at the same time as, and side-by-side with, the wider annual Heveningham Hall Country Fair.
The Country Fair encompasses Heveningham Concours. It is packed with attractions and experiences for all ages, including captivating horse displays, the ‘Dancing Diggers’, and fascinating birds of prey demonstrations with much, much more.
As well as the Main Ring attractions, the fair features an array of shops with local crafts and products, as well as the Food & Drink Fair where you can taste and purchase the best of East Anglia’s producers. And let’s not forget the Fire Feast stage where chefs will showcase their skills and tantalize your taste buds.
When all the excitement gets too much there is the beautiful Walled Garden to visit where you can have lovely traditional English teas, as well as other tasty bites, whilst surrounded by flowers and tranquility. Next to this the Orangery area provides a wonderful place for children to play as well as get involved in such things as the Dog Show, and the Aerial Acrobatics beneath the great Cedar of Lebanon.
Trophies
2025 will see the eighth edition of Heveningham Concours. The event brings together around fifty of the world’s finest motor cars which compete for top honours & special commendations in a variety of categories. There is also an award for Horsepower Hill.
In the aviation concours, around a dozen of the world’s rarest propeller aeroplanes compete for the Hanna Aviation Trophy which is awarded to the best in show. All of the awards are presented to the owners, by the judges, at the summer party on Saturday evening at Heveningham Hall.
'The
Stylish Years'
Pre-War
1886-1945
1886-1945
'The Dawning
of a New Era'
Post-War
1946-1965
1946-1965
Best in Show
'Emerging
Style'
Post-Modern
1966-1999
1966-1999
'Speed & Beauty
Combined'
Performance Cars
1966 - 1999
1966 - 1999
'Faster, Faster'
Performance Cars 2000 - 2024
'Take Me Ohm'
Hybrid & Electric
Cars
Cars
Hanna
Aviation Trophy
'The Challenge of Tarmac or Dirt'
Race & Rally
Cars
Cars
'The Need
for Speed'
Land Speed Record
Cars
Cars
'Most
Stylish Owner'
Horsepower
Hill
Jalopies
1886 - 1996
1886 - 1996
Horsepower
Hill
The Charity
All proceeds and profits from Heveningham Concours are donated to a charitable Trust, which funds many and various cases of need locally and beyond. A few examples of beneficiaries include a local dementia unit, the East Anglian Air Ambulance and a number of local sports clubs.
Heveningham Concours also provides a scholarship for a student undertaking a Master’s degree in Intelligent Mobility at the Royal College of Art.
Heveningham Hall
Heveningham Hall was first built in 1658. Between 1778 and 1781 it was substantially rebuilt by architects Sir Robert Taylor and James Wyatt, resulting in the strikingly wide exterior and the interior’s astonishing neoclassical rooms. The landscape was designed by Capability Brown in 1782, with groundworks also beginning in that year, but with his death in 1783, the landscape project soon faded. In 1995 the works to complete these plans began and renowned landscape architect Kim Wilkie was brought in to help accomplish this. Kim went on to help create many other landscape projects on the estate with the terraces at the rear of the Hall, upon which the motor cars are displayed for the Heveningham Concours, being a notable example.
Tickets available
Spring 2025
