This is Blickling Hall in Norfolk - a National Trust property dating to the early 17th century.
One last shot of the hall with a perfect blue sky.
Blickling Hall is a Grade I listed building.
Country house. Built c.1619-27 for Sir Henry Hobart, Lord Chief Justice,
to the designs of the surveyor Robert Lyminge. Remodelling 1765-85 by Thomas
and William Ivory of Norwich. Red brick with stone and stucco dressings;
roofs plain tiled and pantiled with lead domes to corner turrets. 2½, 3 and
4 storeys, originally a double- courtyard plan, entered from the south and
open to the north. South front of seven bays, the outer bays occupied by
square corner turrets with ogee lead-covered domes. Bays 2, 4 and 6 are three
storeys high with shaped gables to attics and canted 2-storey bay windows
with pierced parapets. Strapwork pediments to upper windows. Windows
generally ovolo-moulded mullion and transom with leaded glazing and iron
casements. Two transoms to first floor windows, lighting the principal rooms;
windows set slightly advanced and with embellished heads of strapwork,
balustrading or pediments. Frieze band with triglyphs and guttae above ground
floor window heads. Central entrance approached via a stone bridge over the
former moat: pierced stone parapet with square piers surmounted by Hobart
bulls supporting shields. Two brick arches with stone dressings below. Oak
entrance screen with raised and fielded panels, six to the doors and six
in the screen panels. Three lintol panels above dated 1620. Semicircular
fanlight with pierced wood and iron screen. Doorway flanked by two Doric
columns supporting frieze of bulls' heads, central keystone with figure
carving. Spandrels carved with female figures holding wreaths. Entablature
with heraldry above. Central first floor window of 12 lights flanked by Ionic
pilasters with blocking; figures of Justice and Truth on balustrade above.
Moulded coping to parapet and gables with figures on keyblocks at gable
peaks. Central clock tower a reconstruction by John Adey Repton c.1830:
stuccoed and colourwashed. Lower stage has pedimented windows between
pilasters with block decoration supporting a decorated frieze; clock stage
has tapering Ionic pilasters and strapwork embellishment to clock face and
window openings. Octagonal opensided lantern with lead covered ogee dome
and finial with weather vane. Two large symmetrically-placed chimney stacks
each with 8 octagonal shafts with star tops and moulded bases. At south-east
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