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Dogs on leads in Home Paddock onl;y light lunches available in Brewhouse.
Disabled parking 200 yards from house linked by sloping gravelled path disabled visitors may drive to and from front door by prior arrangement. House: seven steps to ground floor rooms. Garden: access via 3 steps, then level gravelled paths throughout. Tearoom accessible in Old Brewhouse in courtyard thick handled cutlery available. Guide dogs admitted.
Home of the Dryden family since the 16th century, this exceptional small manor house was built around 1550, added to in the 1590s, and altered in the 1630s and 1710 largely unaltered since.
Within the house, Elizabethan wall paintings and outstanding Jacobean plasterwork are of particular interest.
The formal garden was created between 1708 and 1717 by Edward Dryden at the same time as the house was re-modelled.
The garden is recognised as one of the best surviving formal layouts in the style of Henry London and George Wise, and a considerable influence of Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll generation of gardeners early in the 20th century.
The garden is divided by stone walls and yew hedges into courts with terraces and topiary. The early 18th century timber
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- Landmark