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Garden Name: Houghton Hall
Last Modified: 10/02/2011
Garden ID: 0408

pic: 0408_HoughtonHall.jpg

Owner: The Marquess of Cholmondeley
Address:
King's Lynn


Postcode: PE31 6UE
County: Norfolk

tel: 01485 528569
fax: 01485 528167
website: www.houghtonhall.com
email: info {at} houghtonhall.com

Features: 
400 feet long herbaceous borders
Kitchen garden with trained fruit trees
Rose garden containing 150 varieties
Glasshouse range.

English Heritage Grade:


Opening Times:
Easter Sun, 24th April - 29th Sept; Wed, Thurs, Suns & BH Mons; 11.30am - 5.30pm, last admission 4.30pm

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
June & July.

To see: 
Roses and Herbaceous Borders.

National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: No
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Parties / Coaches: Yes 
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Viewing by Appointment: Yes
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House Open for Viewing: Yes
Comments: as above but 1.30pm - 5pm, last admission 4.30pm

Admission Prices:
House & Gardens £ 8.80; Child £3.50; Family £22
Party rate for 20+ Adults £7.80; Child £2.50
Everything but House, Adults £6; Child £2.50; Family £15.
Party rate for 20+ Adults £5; Child £1.50
Special Events rates visit website

Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
Shop: Yes
Plants for Sale: Yes
Lunches: Yes
Teas: Yes
Refreshments: Yes
Picnics: Yes
Dogs allowed: Yes
Only on Lead: Yes
Events: Yes

Other Facilities:
See own website for special events


Designer: 
Description of Garden:
Houghton Hall, one of the gems of English country houses, was built between 1721 and 1735 by Sir Robert Walpole, Britains' first Prime Minister. The splendid award winning 5-acre walled garden is divided by flowing yew hedges into 'rooms' each with an individual theme. Herbaceous borders run the length of the garden from the glass house on the south facing wall to a Rustic Temple, designed by Julian and Isabel Bannerman, on the north facing wall. The rose parterre with it sunken pool is base on the ceiling design in the White Drawing Room in the Hall. The kitchen garden, dominated by a huge fruit cage designed by the Bannermans', consists of areas of vegetables and soft fruits divided by trained tree fruits. Other areas include pleached limes, cherry walk, wisteria pergola, croquet lawn and areas planted with plum trees and spring and summer bulbs. The garden is interspersed with statues and fountains, the most recent installation being 'Waterflame' designed by Jeppe Hein. Other contemporary sculptures by artists of world renown are located throughout the gardens.


History: 
Original layout by Mrs Pamela Lane-Smith 
Herbaceous borders and rose garden - Paul Underwood - Previous head gardener.
Kitchen garden - Simon Martin - present head gardener
Aster Border, Paeony Border and several garden features - Julian and Isabel Bannerman
Laburnum garden and Memorial garden - the Marquess of Cholmondeley.

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