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\nThis is Blickling Hall in Norfolk \u2013 a National Trust property dating to the early 17th century.<\/p>\n
One last shot of the hall with a perfect blue sky.<\/p>\n
Blickling Hall is a Grade I listed building.<\/p>\n
Country house. Built c.1619-27 for Sir Henry Hobart, Lord Chief Justice,
\nto the designs of the surveyor Robert Lyminge. Remodelling 1765-85 by Thomas
\nand William Ivory of Norwich. Red brick with stone and stucco dressings;
\nroofs plain tiled and pantiled with lead domes to corner turrets. 2\u00bd, 3 and
\n4 storeys, originally a double- courtyard plan, entered from the south and
\nopen to the north. South front of seven bays, the outer bays occupied by
\nsquare corner turrets with ogee lead-covered domes. Bays 2, 4 and 6 are three
\nstoreys high with shaped gables to attics and canted 2-storey bay windows
\nwith pierced parapets. Strapwork pediments to upper windows. Windows
\ngenerally ovolo-moulded mullion and transom with leaded glazing and iron
\ncasements. Two transoms to first floor windows, lighting the principal rooms;
\nwindows set slightly advanced and with embellished heads of strapwork,
\nbalustrading or pediments. Frieze band with triglyphs and guttae above ground
\nfloor window heads. Central entrance approached via a stone bridge over the
\nformer moat: pierced stone parapet with square piers surmounted by Hobart
\nbulls supporting shields. Two brick arches with stone dressings below. Oak
\nentrance screen with raised and fielded panels, six to the doors and six
\nin the screen panels. Three lintol panels above dated 1620. Semicircular
\nfanlight with pierced wood and iron screen. Doorway flanked by two Doric
\ncolumns supporting frieze of bulls\u2019 heads, central keystone with figure
\ncarving. Spandrels carved with female figures holding wreaths. Entablature
\nwith heraldry above. Central first floor window of 12 lights flanked by Ionic
\npilasters with blocking; figures of Justice and Truth on balustrade above.
\nMoulded coping to parapet and gables with figures on keyblocks at gable
\npeaks. Central clock tower a reconstruction by John Adey Repton c.1830:
\nstuccoed and colourwashed. Lower stage has pedimented windows between
\npilasters with block decoration supporting a decorated frieze; clock stage
\nhas tapering Ionic pilasters and strapwork embellishment to clock face and
\nwindow openings. Octagonal opensided lantern with lead covered ogee dome
\nand finial with weather vane. Two large symmetrically-placed chimney stacks
\neach with 8 octagonal shafts with star tops and moulded bases. At south-east
\nand south-west corners, C19 arcaded screens link to service ranges (q.v.).
\nEast facade has 9 bays between corner turrets; rainwater heads dated 1620.
\nProjecting bay windows in bays 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, canted in bays 1, 3 and 5.
\nStone ovolo-moulded mullion and transom windows with leaded glazing; some
\niron lattice frames. Above the bays, shaped attic gables with 3-light windows.
\nContinuous band above ground floor window heads decorated with triglyphs.
\nCorner turrets have pedimented and embellished doorways with semi-
\ncircular-arched heads, those on the east front have blocked pilasters and
\nentablatures with arms. Eaves parapet with stone coping; gable peaks have
\nkeyblocks and figure finials. North front remodelled by William Ivory c.1779:
\nthe corner turrets and the left-hand shaped gable survive from the original
\nbuild. Centre three bays slightly advanced with mullion and transom windows
\nprojecting from wall face under pediments. Frieze of triglyphs continues
\nabove ground floor window heads. Stone eaves cornice with balustrade.
\nFlanking bays with shaped gables have 2-storey square projections with large
\n5-light windows and pierced stone parapets; two transoms to first floor windows
\nas elsewhere. West facade dated 1769, rebuilt by Thomas and William Ivory.
\n13 bays, 1 and 13 being the square corner turrets. Bays 4, 7, 10 have shaped
\ngables to attic storey with eaves parapet, coping and finials as on east
\nfacade. Windows generally ovolo-moulded 2 and 3 light casements with leaded
\nglazing, some first floor windows reglazed. Transoms and pediments to first
\nfloor windows. All windows set slightly forward of wall face. The centre
\nentrance bay is embellished: the first floor window has a strapwork pediment,
\nbelow the window a panel commemorating the bequest of Mary Ann, Countess of
\nBuckinghamshire, towards the erection of the facade, 1769. Attic window on
\nscrolled base with finials. Interior: very fine and elaborate interiors,
\nfully described in the National Trust guide book. Original staircase extended
\nand reconstructed 1767 by Thomas Ivory in the new position: elaborately-carved
\nnewels with figure-finials on pedestals; square, tapering balusters with Ionic
\ncaps and arcading below handrail; strapwork between baluster feet. Building
\nin care of the National Trust. (Pevsner The Buildings of England \u2013 North-east
\nNorfolk and Norwich 1962, Christopher Hussey Country Life June 7, 21, 28 1930,
\nBlickling Hall The National Trust 1985.)<\/p>\n
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