By Anna Porter, Queen’s Quarterly 120/4 (Winter 2013)
The undisputed star of the exhibition Houghton Revisited: Walpole Masterpieces from the Hermitage at Norfolk’s historic Houghton Hall is the Palladian house itself. I hesitate to call it a house because it is too grand to be merely a house. With its own deer park, sculpture park, walled garden, vast lawns, 217 rooms, a grand mahogany staircase inside and another decorative staircase outside, it would be easier to call it a castle, but in England, home of the fanciful understatement, it is merely a “great house.”
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