This enormous red brick stately home, surrounded by acres of landscaped gardens, is an early Victorian mansion built on the site of a Jacobean Manor. It is believed there has been a house on the site since the 13th Century, when Sir Peter Fitzosbert first built a manor house in 1240. Isabella Fitzosbert then married Sir Walter Jernegan, and the estate passed through 13 generations of the Jernegan family. The manor was rebuilt 1604 by the then-owner John Wentworth and it remained unchanged until being bought in 1842 by successful building merchant Sir Morton Peto. During World War 2 the building was used as a hospital and dressing-station for the Army and the Navy, while many evacuees from London also took refuge. The present Lord Somerleyton inherited the title in 1959, in 1978 he was appointed Lord-In-Waiting to the Queen. Paranormal sightings include the ghost of a man called Joseph in the cellar, a young girl in the bathroom of the Old Servant's Quarters and unexplained and sinister shadows along the attic corridors. Room 7 has also been locked for 20 years as staff refuse to go in there and an apparition has been caught on camera from the window outside.