It would be hard to find a more romantic Jacobean English country house than Desmond MacCarthy’s home, the Grade II* Wiveton Hall in Norfolk. Dating from the mid 17th century, it was built by John Gifford, a member of a mercantile family from Gloucester. The house, with its three storey, double-fronted flint façade surmounted by decorative Dutch gables, has an imposing symmetrical appearance, pleasantly contrasted by the naturalistic look of the grounds that surround it. Strolling through the woods, one comes across outcrops of.
