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The ever-changing Norfolk sky casts fleeting shadows and flashes of sunlight over the
parkland and gardens. This transient mood can be visualised as being synonymous
with the passing of time and of generations and ages. The view of the house, garden
and parkland encompasses three centuries of evolvement. Each successive owner refin-
ing and revising in a harmonised way with regard for the past and yet envisioning the
future with the present contemporary fashions and garden design. What we experience
today is the resultant fusion of style changes alongside philosophical and practical rea-
sons for alteration and additions.
The Jacobean mansion was designed by Robert Lyminge for Sir Henry Hobart, James
I’s Chief of Justice of Common Pleas. Sir Hobart transformed the existing medieval
house.
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During the 18 c the mansion was further revised by Thomas and William Ivory for
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John Hobart the 2 Earl of Buckinghamshire. The present mansion is the culmination
of three centuries of changes.
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The distant parkland and lake were created by the 2 Earl and remains an important
feature that connects the wider park to the mansion. The present grid parterre was in-
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troduced in the Victorian period by the 8 Marquis of Lothian. The planting was radi-
cally simplified and revised by Norah Lindsay who was the prominent plants woman
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of the 1920’s and 1930’s and was commissioned by the 11 Marquis of Lothian.

139371 The Parterre.
Blickling Estate, Norfolk. 321/8 x 481/8 inches -o/c