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Shop licensed restaurant picnic site no dogs allowed.
Disabled car park 800 yds from house on A283 courtesy carriage available to ferry disabled and infirm visitors from car-park to house disabled passengers may be set down at the Church Lodge (please phone Property Manager. House: access through Church Lodge (ramp available) most show rooms are on ground floor and on one level except the Chapel. Toilets in servants block. Tearoom in Servants' Block easy access to one end from corridor with collection of firebacks two steps at other end of room thick handled cutlery available. Shop in Servants' Block with easy access. Garden: Pleasure Grounds gently undulating path surfaces good. Park: approached either from Pleasure grounds or from roads outside Park car park and parts of park accessible with care some uneven paths grass rather rough for wheelchairs no vehicles in park.
Owned for most of the Middle Ages by the Percy family, Earls of Northumberland.
In 1682 the 10th Earl's only child, Elizabeth, married Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset. Her inherited wealth allowed the couple in 1688 to set about remodelling the old house in a French Baroque style, probably to designs by
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- Landmark