Houghton Hall
![The façade of Houghton Hall in 2007.](/Images/godic/202501/18/Houghton_Hall_010220.jpg")
![The façade of Houghton Hall from Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus. The corner towers were replaced with domes in the final design.](/Images/godic/202501/18/Houghton_Hall0220.jpg")
![Chimneypiece to Hall, Houghton Hall, Norfolk The Plans, Elevations and Sections, Chimney-pieces and Cielings [sic] of Houghton in Norfolk, 1735 V&A Museum no. 13095](/Images/godic/202501/18/Chimneypiece0220.jpg")
![Jean-Baptiste Oudry's The White Duck, which was stolen from Houghton Hall in 1990](/Images/godic/202501/18/Cholmondeley_Oudry_White_Duck0220.jpg")
Houghton Hall (/ˈhaʊtən/ HOW-tən) is a country house in Norfolk, England. It is the home of David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley.
It was built for the de facto first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, and it is a key building in the history of Palladian architecture in England. It is a Grade I listed building surrounded by 1,000 acres (4.0 km) of parkland adjacent to Sandringham House.