One of the finest 17th-century country houses in East Anglia
Remarkable Stuart architecture and fine Georgian interior.
The Hall is a fine, almost unaltered 17th-century house. There are 18 rooms open to the public. Visitors enter through the Main Door and begin in the Morning Room, with its collection of family portraits and on through the Great Hall with superb stained glass windows. From here visitors pass through the Dining Room and the enriched splendour of the Drawing Room with its fine seascapes. Eventually visitors enter the Cabinet Room which houses one of the Trust’s most complete Grand Tour collections and one of the largest by a single artist (Busiri, who specialised in gouache painting).
Upstairs the Library with its recently reinstated ceiling is outstanding with a superb collection of books built up by successive generations and continued by the last squire who replenished many of the gaps created by early 20th century sales. Following the route through the Yellow, Rose and Red bedrooms the visitor comes to the Chinese Bedroom with its fabulous hand painted 18th-century Chinese wallpaper, conserved in 2003.
Prolific library and Grand Tour collection
Stunning walled garden, orangery and orchards
Many lakeside, parkland and woodland trails to explore
Felbrigg is a garden of two halves; the West Garden is laid out in the style of a typical Victorian pleasure ground, arranged around a lovely 18th-century Orangery.
Focusing on the play between light and shade, open formal lawns drift into dense and dark shrubbery. This area contains many fine specimen trees mainly of transatlantic origin including, Red Oaks, Western Red Cedar and Giant Redwood.
Drift through the Garden Meadow and into the Walled Garden. Here you will find double borders of mixed shrubs, including old roses, fuchsias, hydrangeas and buddleias - during the height of summer these borders should be called the butterfly walk!
There is an herbaceous border, a Hot Border and a Ribbon Border that sweeps through the Entrance Garden into the Kitchen Garden.
The Kitchen Garden is laid out around a pond and divided into four potagers of mixed vegetables and their traditional companions. There are excellent herb borders planted to each side of an 18th-century dovecote.
The New Orchard is planted with varieties of fruit that were known to have been grown in the garden during the 19th century.
The walls are also clothed in fruit, with many varieties of apples, pears, cherries, peaches, apricots and figs.
Admission:
Gift Aid: £7.50, child £3.50, family £18.50. Groups £6, child £3. Standard: £6.80, child £3.15, family £16.80. Garden only (Gift Aid): £3.50, child £1.50. Groups £2.70, child £1.15. Garden only (standard): £3.15, child £1.35. Visitors with valid bus or train tickets: £1 off entrance price to house and garden. Estate free to pedestrians and cyclists.
