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

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

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. 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 Thomas Cook and Son 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
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