Felbrigg Hall

One of the finest 17th-century houses in Norfolk, Felbrigg Hall was the home of the Windham family and its successors for 300 years. The house itself has a distinguished and varied pedigree. The Jacobean entrance front, built mainly in 1620, is attributed to Robert Lyminge, architect of Hatfield House and Blickling. A west wing was added in 1674-86 to the designs of William Samwell, who remodelled Ham House, with interior plasterwork by Edward Goudge. In 1751-6 the Palladian architect James Paine designed a service wing, Gothic library, staircase and several rooms, with interior decoration by Joseph Rose. In 1840, the great hall was remodelled in a neo-Jacobean style by J.C. and G. Buckler. The park is renowned for its trees, many of which were planted by William Windham in the 17th century. The park also features an octagonal dovecote and an early 18th-century orangery.

Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk

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With its back to the north Norfolk coast, Felbrigg Hall watches serenely over its 1700 acre estate. The house has evolved since the 1620s to form a home that people can still imagine living in today. The Grand Tour paintings in the Cabinet remain laid out as planned by William Windham II in the 1750s and the Library holds over 5000 books collected by successive generations of the family. The last squire, R.W. Ketton-Cremer, gave the house and, unusually, all of its contents along with the entire estate to the National Trust in 1969.

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