The Entrance Hall
Adam’s ‘welcome with geometry’ moment
Cool stone, pale walls and a measured play of circles and right angles announce the house’s new 18th-century identity—Tudor mass with Neoclassical manners.
Stand dead-centre, look up, then turn slowly: the symmetry calms the scene like a deep breath before a performance.
📍 Ground floor, main door
Etruscan Dressing Room
Britain’s pioneering ‘Etruscan’ interior
Painted bands copy ancient vase decoration the Georgians called ‘Etruscan’—really Greek—and turn scholarship into fashion.
Trace one black-and-terracotta motif with your eyes and spot how the pattern locks the whole room together.
📍 Family apartments, first floor
State Bed & Apartments
Sleeping as theatre
A show bed hung in lush textiles and rooms choreographed for procession—status you could walk through, not just see.
Start at the doorway and imagine being received: where would you pause, bow, sit? The layout tells you.
📍 First floor, east range
The Long Gallery
Perspective play on a grand scale
Light, mirrors and repeated ornament make distance feel elastic—the Georgians’ Instagram corridor before cameras existed.
Walk halfway, stop, and look back: the rhythm of windows and pilasters snaps into a metronome beat.
📍 Upper floor, garden side
Lake & Meadow Loop
Country air inside the M25
Water, cattle and big oaks frame the house like a landscape painting; the banking show-home dissolves into rural calm.
Pause on the far side of the lake to frame house + water + sky in one photo; watch for herons working the margins.
📍 From the garden gate, clockwise path
