This is just up the road from me. It’s still privately owned and open one day a year in the summer. I haven’t been since I was a toddler so it was good to go back as a grown-up (sort of) with a camera.
As well as the rather beautiful house, the gardens hide away the former parish church, now fallen into ruins and romantically overgrown, and a gorgeous aqua blue 1940s (I think) swimming pool (I don’t usually get carried away with swimming pools but this was lovely).
The history of the estate stretches back for centuries. It was owned for 400 years by the Wright family (13 John Wrights in a row). A Tudor house stood on the site, and this was rebuilt in the 1740s. You can find a history of the house here.
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