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Wolterton Hall is a large country house which is located in the ecclesiastical parish of Wickmere with Wolterton and the civil parish of Wickmere in the English county of Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. The present hall was completed in 1742 and was designed by the architect Thomas Ripley who was a protégé of the Walpole brothers. The present hall and estate was once occupied by an early manor house, owned by Sir Henry Spelman. The village of Wolterton is mentioned in the Domesday Book where it is listed under the names Ultertuna and Wivetuna. The survey shows main landholder of Wolterton was the Norman nobelman William de Warenne. Horatio Walpole acquired the manor house and estate at Wolterton in 1722 which he decided to renovate. Walpole was the younger brother of Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, who was a British statesman who is generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain