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Salle Park is a country house in
Salle Farms Co. Retrieved 8 June 2020. for Edward Hase, by an unknown architect. It passed to the Jodrell family when his daughter Vertue married the dramatist
Salle Farms Co. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
Salle Park itself has an area of about . There is a Georgian-style garden south of the house, with formal lawns and an avenue of clipped yews, extending to a curved
Norfolk
Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...
, England, near the village of Salle and about north-west of Norwich
Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...
. The house is a Grade II* listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
, and the park and garden are listed Grade II in Historic England
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's Register of Parks and Gardens
The Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England provides a listing and classification system for historic parks and gardens similar to that used for listed buildings. The register is managed by Historic England ...
.
It is the home of Sir John Woolmer White, 4th Baronet; the estate has been owned by the White family for over 100 years.
Description
History
The current house, replacing an earlier house which stood near the northern boundary of the park, was built in 1763"Salle Gardens"Salle Farms Co. Retrieved 8 June 2020. for Edward Hase, by an unknown architect. It passed to the Jodrell family when his daughter Vertue married the dramatist
Richard Paul Jodrell
Richard Paul Jodrell (13 November 1745 – 26 January 1831) was a classical scholar and playwright.
Life
His parents were Paul Jodrell, Solicitor General to Frederick Prince of Wales, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Warner, of Nort ...
, her second cousin, in 1772. In 1890 Major Timothy White, ancestor of the present owner, acquired the estate."History"Salle Farms Co. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
House
The house is inPalladian
Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). What is today recognised as Palladian architecture evolved from his concepts of symmetry, perspective and ...
style. The north side has a central stone portico. The south side, facing the garden, has a façade of 7 bays with a three-bay pediment
Pediments are gables, usually of a triangular shape.
Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the lintel, or entablature, if supported by columns. Pediments can contain an overdoor and are usually topped by hood moulds.
A pedim ...
; the central door has a stone pediment with ionic pilaster
In classical architecture, a pilaster is an architectural element used to give the appearance of a supporting column and to articulate an extent of wall, with only an ornamental function. It consists of a flat surface raised from the main wal ...
s. Sir Woolmer White, 1st Baronet, added a west wing, and an east wing containing an orangery
An orangery or orangerie was a room or a dedicated building on the grounds of fashionable residences of Northern Europe from the 17th to the 19th centuries where orange and other fruit trees were protected during the winter, as a very lar ...
.
Gardens and estate
Salle Park itself has an area of about . There is a Georgian-style garden south of the house, with formal lawns and an avenue of clipped yews, extending to a curved ha-ha
A ha-ha (french: hâ-hâ or ), also known as a sunk fence, blind fence, ditch and fence, deer wall, or foss, is a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier (particularly on one side) while preserving an uninterrupted view ...
; beyond this the grounds are planted with trees and shrubs. The walled kitchen garden, built in the 1780s, is about south-west of the house on the southern boundary of the park. it is possible to visit the gardens on a private guided tour.
Salle Park Estate owns a wider area of more than , the land primarily devoted to arable farming
Arable land (from the la, wikt:arabilis#Latin, arabilis, "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.''Oxford English Dictionary'', "arable, ''adj''. and ''n.''" Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2013. Al ...
. There are of woodland.
See also
*Jodrell baronets
The Lombe, later Jodrell Baronetcy, of Salle Park in the County of Norfolk, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 22 January 1784 for John Lombe, High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1772, with remainder in default of male issue ...
* White baronets
There have been five baronetcies created for persons with the surname of White, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and four in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The baronets include Blagdon in the County of Northumberland, Tuxford and ...
References
{{reflist Grade II* listed buildings in Norfolk Grade II listed parks and gardens in Norfolk Country houses in Norfolk Gardens in Norfolk