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Disabled visitors may be driven to the farm ask for directions from ticket office in Stable Block Access in and around the farmyard is on concrete and gravel paths ramped entrances to all buildings. Access to Barn & Farm Museum is via one step car must be taken to avoid vehicles on displays.
The Home Farm was built in 1794 as a model farm, and has been restored. The Great Barn, designed by Sir John Soane, houses a collection of farm machinery of the kind used here over 200 years ago. Rare breeds of animals, including sheep, cattle, poultry, pigs, horses and goats, can be viewed in paddocks and in thatched buildings. There is an adventure woodland and wagon rides drawn by fabulous Shire horses.
The spectacular 20 acres of walled gardens and 350 acre landscaped park by Bridgeman (1720s), Capability Brown (1767) and Repton (1801-9), includes a grand folly and Chinese bridge.
There is also a 2 mile avenue, originally of elms which were destroyed by the Dutch elm disease, have now been replanted with limes. The formal garden surrounding the house is enclosed by iron railings and includes an informal rose garden created on the site of a Victorian conservatory, roses including 'Nevada'
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- Landmark