Holkham Hall is one of those rare buildings that seems to embody the spirit of the age in which it was created. Its outward appearance, set in spreading parkland, answers the popular ideal of a great ...

Work to Holkham Hall had begun in 1734 with the construction of the Family Wing, one of the four corner pavilions of the building. This interior, Brettingham informs us, was decorated to Kent’s ...

Way back in the 18th century, the Palladian Holkham Hall was built for the 1st Earl of Leicester ... It’s a very gentle, comfortable interior, nothing super grand but everything beautifully balanced.’ ...

all in preparation for 'Holkham Hall by Candlelight'. The annual event gives members of the public a unique opportunity to relish the majestic interior while it is adorned with a host of lavish ...

For the aristocratic Coke family, custodians of Holkham Hall in Norfolk, things are a little different. From antique furniture to oil paintings, royal mementoes to rugs, its attics, cellars ...

The Statue Gallery at Holkham Hall contains one of the most complete collection of classical statues in a private house in Britain. The purpose of this room was to show off this collection and the ...

Holkham Hall, valued at more than £200 million, is on the north Norfolk coast and owned by the Earl of Leicester and the huge farming estate is run by Jake Fiennes. But the picturesque marshes ...

The Cokes even had a marble hall of sorts: Holkham’s front door leads to a grand interior modelled on Roman temples, with a domed, coffered ceiling supported by pink-veined columns and a stone ...

Holkham Hall in Norfolk had been slowly working to restore the six-acre garden after it fell into disrepair, and then the Covid pandemic halted work. Much of it reopened last year after being ...