Brinton Hall, Norfolk, snowdrop tour with lunch
Multiple dates and times
Brinton Hall, NR24 2QH
Description
A 16th-century house extended in 1822 in gault brick by the Brereton family. Award-winning work includes remodelling of the west front and extensive interior restoration including unbricking five Georgian windows.
The fine oak staircase is reputed to have originated from Merton place, Horatio Nelson’s last residence. Three important Brereton portraits have been purchased and restored dating from 1660 to 1805. A Gurney/Brereton arrangement led to Brinton Hall becoming a county bank during the 1820s.
Outside the gardens have been planted for year-round interest, especially trees and shrubs. There is a woodland garden, snowdrop theatre, formal lawns leading to a ha-ha. The furthest lawn overlooks the parkland (now a county wildlife site), lake and woods. There is also an 18th century walled garden used for fruit, vegetable and cut flower growing, an apiary and an orchard planted with a wide variety of fruit trees.
Displays include fine stone age tools found in Brinton, photographs of important Brereton textiles, e g the Anna Margaretta bedhangings, Roman coins and materials consistent with a Roman villa, and the story of Nelson’s staircase.
An ericaceous planting of unusual shrubs around a 150-year-old fallen Scots pine is a new feature on the ha-ha lawn.
The snowdrop tour involves a one-hour walk over rough ground - please bring suitable footwear and house shoes.
Tour £28 including snowdrop tour, lunch (a choice of home-made soups and fresh bread rolls, followed by a choice of puddings, tea or coffee) and a house tour.
Snowdrops for sale.
Please see our cancellation policy below:
If you cancel more than two weeks before the tour is scheduled to take place, we will fully refund your ticket money excluding any phone booking fees. If it’s less than 14 days before a tour, for any reason, we regret that we cannot refund your ticket money unless we can resell your ticket(s). If we cancel at any time, we will fully refund your ticket money. Although we make every effort to avoid it, sometimes a tour has to be cancelled at short notice due to circumstances beyond our control. In this case, we cannot accept responsibility for, or refund, any consequential losses, such as money spent on travel or accommodation.