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Clifton House

Sometimes described as the finest surviving merchant's town house in England, Pevsner says Clifton House provides 'the most remarkable catalogue of building periods from the middle ages onwards.' As well as fine interiors and a magnificent stair, the tour includes the famous Elizabethan watch tower with its Jacobean murals and spectacular views. The house was begun in 1250 and subsequently remodelled by owners up to the Victorian period, when it eventually became a boarding house. Currently being restored by Simon and Anna Thurley, the house now displays its original magnificence once again. The medieval undercroft is the earliest brick structure in Norfolk; the kitchen has the largest domestic medieval tiled pavement in England (visible through hatches) and the five-storey lookout tower, built in the 1570s contains a newly completed museum and reconstructed merchant’s dining room.

Tour approx one and a half hours, £13 including including tea, coffee or soft drinks with cakes.

www.cliftonhouse.org.uk

To book, call the Mercury Theatre on 01206 573948
or book on-line at www.mercurytheatre.co.uk. 

Other nearby properties:

17. Didlington Manor
41. Silverstone Farm

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