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What's not to miss inside?
The Parlour (c. 1720s)
The story’s overturePerfume, crumbs and half-played cards set character without a single label.
📍 Ground floor, front room
The Kitchen
Life below stairsHiss of the kettle, orange peel on the board—sound and smell are props as sharp as any painting.
📍 Lower level
The Smoking Room
Taste and fashion evolveAs the family rises, objects multiply—prints, pipes, porcelain—status displayed by clutter.
📍 Upper floor
The Garret
From prosperity to austerityBare boards and thin light close the arc; history is not a straight line up.
📍 Top floor
🤓 Fun Facts
Severs called the experience a ‘still-life drama’—you’re meant to solve the story from clues, not labels.
The fictional family are Huguenot silk-weavers—reflecting the real 18th-century French Protestant community of Spitalfields.
Candlelit ‘Silent Night’ visits heighten scent and sound—crackling wicks, carriage noises—so the house plays like theatre.