URPoint Details
Shop; dogs on leads in parkland only.
Disabled parking 100 yards from house disabled visitors may be driven to and collected from entrance. Park Farm: easy access (except top floor of mill block). Shop is easily reached, no steps.
Restaurant, Orangery and Farm tearooms easily reached no steps; thick handled cutlery available. Garden & Parkland: easy access; two adapted picnic tables. Handling collection (touch boxes) in Discovery Room, Mansion, Museum and Farm. Mansion collection includes textiles, plaster mouldings, carved wood and metalwork. The Farm House offers some implements and livestock. Museum has reproduction costumes, laundry and kitchen items. Guide dogs admitted.
Twenty-acre landscape garden of the ancestral home of the Earls of Lichfield laid out in the mid 1700s, and is has important Neo-Classwical monuments and buildings, principally by Thomas Wright and James ‘Athenian' Stuart, and many fine trees both within the garden and in the adjoining 1000 acre parkland. During the late 19th century the garden in front of the house was re-designed by W A Nesfield into a series of terraced lawns with stone urns and troughs and now a colour scheme of lavender, yellow roses
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- Landmark