URPoint Details
No shop or refreshments, but available in village.
Disabled parking immediately off the A134; disabled visitors may be driven to the Hall. House: 200 yards from car park on gravelled tarma; two steps into porchway; open rooms are on ground floor; stairlift to first floor; staircase from the Banqueting Hall is fully visible, but not possible for wheelchairs. Garden: accessible except for two steps and four down; the Tudor Garden House is not accessible.
A turreted brick Tudor mansion, little changed since 1578 with the original panelled banqueting hall, an 18th century drawing room, a Regency library and a Victorian bedroom, showing fine furniture and Chinese porcelain.
There is also a Beatrix Potter display and a garden.
The garden with lawns planted with specimen trees including a Judas tree, tree of heaven, black mulberry, copper beech and a Xanthoceras sorbifolium from the East. Clipped box hedges and topiary as well as herbaceous borders planted to original Victorian and Edwardian designs. The north arm of the moat is planted as a sunken garden.
- Type:
- Landmark