The History of our property is fascinating from the first Balloonist to cross the channel, William Morris & the Arts and Crafts movement,  the Edward Burne-Jones tapestries, the founding of BP from the oil wells of Persia to the wars and modern horror movies.   Read all about it in the menu above.

A Gallery of Images

Clicking on an individual picture will display that picture in a larger view and allow the left and right buttons on a keyboard to move through the images.  The i Information icon shows the title.  Close the view using the X in the top right to return to this view.

Photo’s commissioned by D’Arcy and taken by Bedford Lemaire in 1891