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Shop; no dogs in garden, but allowed in park on leads, on footpaths only; picnic area.
Disabled parking about 300 yards from house; paths unsuitable for wheelchairs disabled visitors may be driven to, and collected from, front door. House: up one step to porch (ramp available) main hall and four rooms easily accessible. Toilets in stable block. Garden: easily accessible gravel paths. Tearoom on ground floor, one step up from garden ramps available. Panelling, moulding and other items may be touched most chairs may be sat on.
William and Mary style completed in 1701 for wealthy Chancery barrister, Thomas Vernon, a distant relation of both the Vernons of Haddon Hall and the Vernons of Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire.
Three local masons appear to have submitted designs around 1700 for Vernon's new home.
Each design depicts a front of eleven bays with three-bay projecting wings (the form of the present building), suggesting that the brief was fairly specific but apparently none was adopted, and the designer of Hanbury remains unidentified.
A red-brick house with stone dressings on the Clarendon/Belton model 5-bay central block, with projecting 3-bay pavilions pediment, dormers, hipped roof and
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- Landmark