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Blickling Hall
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(24km/15m N of Norwich) Built around an earlier house in 1616–25, and added to in the 18C, Blickling neverthless retains a powerfully Jacobean feeling with its warm red brick and large mullioned windows. The architect, Robert Lyminge (d. 1628), had recently completed *Hatfield House, of which this seems a more intimate cousin. His most striking feature is the Long Gallery, with its intricate plasterwork ceiling of heraldic and emblematic designs.
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Blickling is also famous for its gardens, which have developed over three centuries. It is possible that Humphrey *Repton had a hand in the wider landscape garden. A sunken flower garden, the famous Parterre, nestles discreetly to the east side of the house; laid out in the 1870s, it was adapted to its present form by Norah Lindsay in the 1930s. Blickling was the first stately home to be given to the *National Trust.
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