Built around 1482 in highly fashionable and expensive red brick, 'Oxburgh Hall' was intended to reflect the newly acquired status of Sir Edmund Bedingfeld he was knighted and even hosted a visit from the king and queen.
Despite its fortified moated appearance, Oxburgh Estate was built as a family home and the Bedingfelds have lived here ever since, surviving Civil War, periods of near dereliction and, in the 20th century, the threat of demolition.