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  • The English Garden

    FLIGHT OF FANTASY

    Dec 31, 2021 4 minutes
    WORDS FIONA CUMBERPATCH
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    ANNIE GREEN-ARMYTAGE

    There is a dreamlike quality to Houghton Hall, which is tucked away in the North Norfolk countryside, 15 miles from the historic maritime port of King’s Lynn. Pass through Houghton, a single-street village lined with white cottages, continue through ornate white gates and an estate is revealed where a herd of pure white fallow deer graze and the turrets of the elegant but imposing Palladian mansion appear like a mirage against the endless Norfolk skies.

    Built in the 1720s for Great Britain’s first prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole, the imposing house was designed to reflect the lofty status of its owner. The surrounding 450-acre grounds were created by Charles Bridgeman to include ‘twisting wilderness paths’ with blocks of woodland and

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