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Car park free.
Disabled car parking. Hall: has several flights of stairs wheelchair access is difficult. Shop and tea room in the Coach House has easy access with level access from car park thick handled cutlery available. Wheelchair available for indoor use only Toilets in Museum. The lake has easy access from car park over grass garden not easy from house, due to steps and gravel. Access for wheelchairs is by ramp to Museum.
Owing to low light levels, visitors wishing to study the Hall's plasterwork or paintings in detail should avoid dull days and late afternoons towards the end of September.
One of the most individual of late 17th century houses, begun by George Vernon in 1661. The rich decoration includes woodcarvings by Grinling Gibbons and Pierce, superb plasterwork, mythological decorative paintings by Laguerre.
The great-carved staircase is one of the finest of its kind in an English house.
Museum of Childhood, (NT). Open same days as Hall. Admission charge to Museum and Garden. Situated in the 19th century service wing of Sudbury Hall, the Museum of Childhood contains fascinating and innovative displays about children from the 18th century onwards, but with particular
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- Landmark