Brettenham Parish

Now known as Old Buckenham Hall School, Brettenham Hall was built in the early-seventeenth century, possibly on the site of an earlier manor house, perhaps with a large associated park that was further developed in the late-eighteenth century and influenced by the work of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown at Branches Park. The pleasure gardens, house, yards and kite-shaped walled garden lay within a lozenge-shaped enclosure, partly separated from the parkland by ha-has. The house was extensively altered during the early-nineteenth century. The park has reduced in size since it became a school in the mid-twentieth century when a number of new school building were added, parkland has become playing fields and some areas converted to arable. The walled garden and part of the nineteenth pleasure gardens survive and the park includes lodges, a late-nineteenth century model farm and avenue of oaks flanking the main entrance drive.
Not open to the general public