Hanworth Hall is a large late 17th century country house some 500m to the south of the village of

Hanworth, Norfolk Hanworth is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is north of Norwich, south-west of Cromer and north-east of London. The nearest railway station is Gunton on a branch line, the Bittern Line, commencing at Norwic ...

, England. It is protected and recognised in the highest category of the three in the English statutory scheme, as a Grade I

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. It is built of brick with stone dressings and a hipped (sloped) slate roof to a double pile

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. The main eastern façade has 2 storeys plus a garret-style attic; it is 9

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s across. The central three slightly project, under a simple pediment. Hanworth Hall was seat of the Doughty family from the 15th to the 18th century. The hall was rebuilt after a fire of 1686, for Robert Doughty (1699/1700-1770). His son, Robert Lee Doughty, began to lay out the park in 1770. He valued input from friend, leading landscape designer

Humphry Repton Humphry Repton (21 April 1752 – 24 March 1818) was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown; he also sowed the seeds of the more intricate and eclectic styles of ...

during 1789 to 1790. Within the remaining demense grounds is a notable Spanish chestnut tree which is thought to pre-date 1714. Robert died with no heirs and the estate passed to the children of his sister Catherine and her husband George Lukin passing in turn to Philip Wynell Mayow (died 1845), then

William Howe Windham William Howe Windham (30 March 1802 – 22 December 1854) was the son of Vice-Admiral William Lukin Windham, and a British Member of Parliament. He lived at Felbrigg Hall.William Lukin Windham Vice-Admiral William Lukin, later William Lukin Windham (20 September 1768 – 12 January 1833), was a Royal Navy officer who rose to the rank of Vice Admiral and served with great distinction through the Napoleonic Wars. Eventually he inherit ...

) and then the latter's son

William Frederick Windham William Frederick Windham (9 August 18402 February 1866) was the son of William Howe Windham and the heir to Felbrigg Hall in the county of Norfolk, England. In 1861–62, he was the subject of a "Lunacy Act 1845, lunacy" case after he married a ...

. At the end of the century, his associated £20,000 alleged lunacy principally for a left-handed marriage and being profligate caused the property to be sold in 1900 to Joseph Gurney Barclay for his third son, Army officer Henry Barclay, aide-de-camp to

Edward VII of the United Kingdom Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria an ...

(1906–10) and

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(1910-25). Henry's descendant, and significant heir, Michael, was convicted and briefly gaoled in 2006 for wildlife offences.

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