Hoveton Hall

The Hoveton Hall Estate covers 620 acres of parkland, gardens, woodland, arable and grazing agricultural land and a fine Regency hall built between 1809-1812 of gault brick with a slate roof whose design is attributed to Humphry Repton and his son John Adey Repton. Humphry Repton was known as the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century and often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown.

The Hall was built by Christobella Burroughes (née Negus) and her husband James, although it was later extended to the north, possibly by Geoffrey Buxton, to provide further accommodation and servants’ quarters. It has been owned by the Buxton family since 1946 and handed down through the generations. In late 2013, it was passed on to Harry and Rachel Buxton and their four children by Harry’s parents, Andrew and Barbara Buxton, who restored and improved the gardens, woodlands and parkland into what you see today. Hoveton Hall is a lived-in family home and is never empty or idle.

The Hall is well-known for its gardens, including the walled “Spider Garden”, so named after the wrought-iron spider’s web design gate made in 1936 by Eric Stevenson of Wroxham and the old kitchen garden, a one-acre former Victorian walled kitchen garden which now also includes lawns and herbaceous borders, while still providing fruit, vegetables and herbs for the house. There is also a clematis walk, an orchard, a woodland walk, the magnolia garden, as well as two lakes, the arboretum, the grade II-listed glasshouse and the 18th century, grade II-listed ice well.

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