page_title: Hoveton Hall
section_title: Twentieth Century Owners
hierarchical_section_title: Hoveton Hall / Twentieth Century Owners
caption_attribution_description: English: Advertisement for the sale of Hoveton Hall 1931
context_page_description: Hoveton Hall, Hoveton in Norfolk is an historic house of significance on the English Heritage Register. It is a well-preserved Regency house of gault brick with a slate roof and was built between 1809 and 1812 by Humphry Repton, the well-known architect and landscape designer. Today it is part of an estate of 120 acres of gardens and parkland and 450 acres of arable land as well as picturesque woodland. The gardens are open to the public during part of the year and there are facilities available for accommodation and special events particularly weddings.
context_section_description: In 1912 Sir Jacob Preston, the grandson of the first Preston owner, sold the Hall to Reverend John Hare Beevor (1861-1914). After his death two years later in 1914 his wife Susan continued to live at the property but she decided to sell it in 1919.
  The new owner was Geoffrey Fowell Buxton (1852-1929) who was a Director of the Barclay Bank. He was also involved in the Volunteer movement and was the second in command of the 1st Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment. In 1903 he was the Mayor of the Norwich Town Council. When he died in 1929 his wife Mary put the property on the market. An advertisement for the sale of the house is shown.
  George Cradock bought the house but unfortunately his wife Eunice died in 1934 and he put the property up for sale the following year. Captain Henry Douglas Clark (1889-1952) who was the son of a very prominent shipbuilder purchased the house and made substantial renovations. In 1946 Desmond Buxton bought the Hall and it has remained in the Buxton family since then.
caption: Advertisement for Hoveton Hall in 1931.
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