#plasterwork

The rich lacquer red of the staircase hall acts as a beautiful foil both to the eighteenth-century plasterwork and to the selection of family portraits ranged in the hall itself, up the stairs and between half columns on the landing. Sometimes used for buffet meals, shooting lunches and children's parties, the hall also houses a much-used pianola beneath the stairs.

A delightful, quirky Tudor house, with tapestries, wall-paintings, fine plasterwork, and a civil war legend.

The owners' original dining room was superseded by a grander version, leaving the original dining room to be used by the servants. Unbeknownst to them, underneath the whitewash were these marvellous decorative emblems, later revealed.

Parliamentary soldiers were besieged in the church, which was attacked by mortar fire, burning the roof. There is a legend that a shepherd boy had attempted to warn the soldiers of the danger from the royalists by playing on his flute, but was killed by the royalists. He is represented by a statue in the garden.

Fountain, display cases, and other details of Georges Fouquet’s jewelry shop designed by Alphonse Mucha in 1901.