 Coke also expanded the estate itself , incorporating farms around the House as their leases ended , and by 1800 the estate covered 3 @,@ 500 acres . Samuel Wyatt was also employed from 1799 to 1805 to build new lodges at the entrance of the extended estate , and until 1806 also worked on a new kitchen garden ; this covered six acres . Humphry Repton was employed to extend the lake yet again , and proposed building a boathouse and fishing pavilion , as well as a chain ferry leading to a " snug thatched cottage " ; there is no evidence this proposal was ever approved . Most of the work was completed by 1810 , and from then on Coke 's attention turned to hunting game . The estate was explicitly designed with that in mind , and game books note between 1 @,@ 300 and 2 @,@ 500 partridges killed most years . In 1822 , Elizabeth , Coke 's daughter , recorded that 800 birds were shot in one day . 
