URPoint Details
Dogs on leads in car park only; picnics in car park only; shop; restaurant (managed by the family).
Disabled visitors may be set down at house entrance vehicles to be parked in car park disabled drivers please contact in advance. House: entrance hall, saloon and one other room on ground floor accessible all other show rooms upstairs. Garden, shop and restaurant have easy access.
An impressive central gatehouse dating from 1530 with an Elizabethan half-timbered courtyard.
During the Civil War this mainly Elizabethan house was attacked by both Parliamentary and Royalist forces. It has important connections with the Gunpowder Plot and contains priests' hiding places.
The contents of the gatehouse and South Wing include some notable furniture, porcelain, portraits and memorabilia of Throckmorton family who have lived here since 1409.
There are also two churches, a tranquil lake, riverside walk and formal gardens, Gunpowder Plot and children's clothes exhibition.
- Type:
- Landmark