Stody Lodge

B and I visited Stody Lodge this afternoon, famous locally for its extensive collection of azaleas and rhododendrons.  The original house used to be part of the Blicking Estate.   It succumbed to fire shortly after it was acquired by  Lord Rothermere who commissioned a new house to be built in 1933. which is the fine house pictured above.  The blue pantiles (traditional roofing in East Anglia) were quarried locally at Barney, near Melton Constable. In the Second World War it was commandeered by The Royal Army Medical Corp and used as a convalescent home.
The Water Gardens are particularly pretty, see extra.