A spectacular country mansion, one of the most significant 19th century houses in the country. It is Grade I listed with listed gardens designed by Capability Brown.
The location is packed with original features, the interior has a spectacular hall with vast vaulted ceiling, stunning fossil stone pillars and beautiful tiled floor. The north and south facades are red stone, ornate and imposing.
Within the house is a three storey chapel with stained glass windows, beautiful carved ceiling and lapis lazuli and marble floor.
The first floor has fossil stone pillars, many original detailing and numerous period rooms leading off.
A long avenue leads directly to the house, in front of which is a statue of ‘the dying Gaul’. The grounds stretch for 250 acres, in which there is a substantial lake with an island. The gardens are laid with high beech hedges, there is a tower at the far end of one side overlooking the house.
