Houghton Hall
Country house in Norfolk, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Houghton Hall (disambiguation).
Houghton Hall (/ˈhaʊtən/ HOW-tən)[1] is a country house in the parish of Houghton in Norfolk, England. It is the residence of the 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley.[2]
It was commissioned by the de facto first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, in 1722, and is a key building in the history of Neo-Palladian architecture in England. It is a Grade I listed building surrounded by 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) of parkland, and is a few miles from Sandringham House.