Photo: Somerleyton Hall by Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
About this place
Somerleyton Hall is a grand Victorian country house near Lowestoft in Suffolk.
Samuel Morton Peto, a self-made building contractor and railway developer, bought the estate in the 1840s and rebuilt it from 1844 to 1851, transforming an earlier Jacobean manor into an extravagant Anglo-Italianate showpiece.
The estate passed to the Crossley family in 1863 and has remained in their ownership ever since.
The formal gardens contain a yew hedge maze laid out in 1846, created as part of the same mid-Victorian transformation and widely regarded as one of the finest in Britain.
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Nearest station: Somerleyton Rail Station (1.1 miles)
Open Easter to October for gardens; hall tours available on selected days — check the official website for current dates and times.
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