Blickling Hall

Blickling Hall
Blickling Hall
Type	Stately home
Location	Blickling, Norfolk
Coordinates	52°48′42″N 1°13′54″E / 52.8118°N 1.2318°E
Built	1616
Built for	Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet
Architect	Robert Lyminge
Architectural style(s)	Jacobean
Owner	National Trust
Website	https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/blickling
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name	Blickling Hall
Designated	19 January 1952
Reference no.	1051428
	Location within Norfolk

Blickling Hall is a Jacobean stately home situated in 5,000 acres of parkland in a loop of the River Bure, near the village of Blickling north of Aylsham in Norfolk, England. The mansion was built on the ruins of a Tudor building for Sir Henry Hobart from 1616 and designed by Robert Lyminge. The library at Blickling Hall contains one of the most historically significant collections of manuscripts and books in England, containing an estimated 13,000 to 14,000 volumes. The core collection was formed by Sir Richard Ellys. The property passed into the care of the National Trust in 1940.