East Barsham Manor is an important work of Tudor architecture

Tudor architecture

The Tudor architectural style is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period and even beyond, for conservative college patrons...

, originally built in or around 1520. It is located in the village of East Barsham

Barsham, Norfolk

Barsham is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, and includes the villages of East Barsham, North Barsham, West Barsham and Houghton St Giles. The villages are all situated with 3 km of each other, about 5 km north of the town of Fakenham and 45 km north-west of the city...

, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of the town of Fakenham

Fakenham

Fakenham is a town and civil parish in Norfolk, England. It is situated on the River Wensum, some north east of King's Lynn, south west of Cromer, and north west of Norwich....

 in the English

England

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 county of Norfolk

Norfolk

Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

. It is protected as a Grade I listed building. The two-storey house was built for Sir Henry Fermor between circa

Circa

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1520 and 1530. By the 19th century it was largely ruined, and was restored in 1919 and 1938. It was built contemporaneously with Sutton Place, Surrey

Sutton Place, Surrey

Sutton Place, 3 miles NE of Guildford in Surrey is a Grade I listed Tudor manor house built c.1525 by Sir Richard Weston, courtier of Henry VIII. It is of great importance to art history in showing some of the earliest traces of Italianate renaissance design elements in English architecture. In...

(1520's), also built in brick, to which it is comparable.

The entrance front of Dalmeny House

Dalmeny House

Dalmeny House is a Gothic revival mansion located in an estate close to Dalmeny on the Firth of Forth, to the north-west of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was designed by William Wilkins, and completed in 1817.Dalmeny House is the home of the Earl and Countess of Rosebery. The house was the first in...

 in Scotland, designed by William Wilkins

William Wilkins

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in 1814, is based on the facade of East Barsham Manor.