Wolterton Hall | |
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General information | |
Type | Historic house |
Architectural style | Georgian |
Town or city | Near Aylsham, Norfolk, NR11 7LY |
Country | England |
Coordinates | 52°50′26″N 1°12′37″E / 52.840635°N 1.210311°E |
Completed | 1742 |
Inaugurated | 1725 |
Renovated | 1828 |
Client | Horatio Walpole |
Technical details | |
Structural system | Brick, Portland stone cladding (ground floor) |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Thomas Ripley George Stanley Repton (east wing, 1828) |
Other designers | Charles Bridgeman (parkland and lake) William Gilpin (gardens) |
Website | |
Wolterton Hall website | |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
Designated | 25 February 1952 |
Reference no. | 1049875[1] |
Wolterton Hall, is a large country house in the ecclesiastical parish of Wickmere with Wolterton and the civil parish of Wickmere in the county of Norfolk, England, United Kingdom.[2] The present hall was commissioned by the 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton and completed in 1742, it was designed by the architect Thomas Ripley who was a protégé[3] of Lord Walpole and his brother Sir Robert Walpole.