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Sennowe Hall (also known as Sennowe Park) is a large country house and estate located near the village of

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. The clock tower, the house and the stables, all located in a landscaped park, are

Grade II* listed buildings 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 I ...

. Sennowe Hall was originally a Georgian house built in 1774 by Thomas Wodehouse who had inherited the estate from his aunt Mary Bacon in 1760. It was sold by his son

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MP in 1850 and was subsequently owned by the Morse-Boycott family, who had it re-built by

Decimus Burton Decimus Burton (30 September 1800 – 14 December 1881) was one of the foremost English architects and landscapers of the 19th century. He was the foremost Victorian architect in the Roman revival, Greek revival, Georgian neoclassical and Reg ...

. It then passed into ownership of the lighting engineer

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. The estate was bought in 1898 by Thomas Albert Cook, a grandson of

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, the founder of the

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travel agency. He commissioned the Norwich architect

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to remodel and considerably enlarge the house. The house and its surrounding estate are still owned by his descendants. The hall was the main filming location for ''The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor'', an episode of the television series ''

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Historic Houses Association: Sennowe Hall
Grade II* listed buildings in Norfolk Grade II* listed houses Decimus Burton buildings Houses completed in 1774 {{Norfolk-struct-stub