Somerleyton Hall is a country house in the village of Somerleyton near Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. In 1240 a manor house was built on the site of Somerleyton Hall by Sir Peter Fitzosbert, and it went through various owners and transformations. In 1843 Somerleyton Hall and Park were bought by the prosperous entrepreneur and MP Samuel Morton Peto. For the next seven years he carried out extensive rebuilding in the Anglo-Italian architecture style. Peto employed Prince Albert's architect John Thomas; the clock tower houses a clock designed by Benjamin Vulliamy. Peto had garden features designed by William Andrews Nesfield and Joseph Paxton. (wikipedia.org)