EAST ANGLIA’S largest county, Norfolk, covers an area of 2,074 square miles and boasts a wonderfully diverse landscape of woods, lush farmland and a glorious sweeping coastline that stretches for 90 miles from King’s Lynn in the west to Hopton-on-Sea in the east. This year, buyers looking to secure a base in this least cluttered of counties can choose from an unusually wide selection of coastal and country properties, from manors and farmhouses large and small, to seaside houses old and new.
Ben Rivett of Savills in Norwich (01603 229256) sets the pace with the launch onto the market of Grade II*-listed Ingoldisthorpe Hall, only three miles from the royal estate at Sandringham and 10 miles from King’s Lynn—a rare find in west Norfolk, where, as elsewhere in the county, most of the finest houses are owned by the major estates. He quotes a guide price of £3.75 million for the imposing country house, set in 33 acres of private gardens, parkland and woodland. Originally known as Mount (1845) as ‘the delightful seat of Capt John Davy RN, built by John Davy Esq in 1745 on an eminence commanding an extensive view of the ocean and the adjacent country’.
