Facilities & access

General

  • Free parking 500 yards from house, tea-room and shop
  • Shop - gift range includes local produce
  • Plant sales - including plants found in the garden
  • Tea-room - serving homemade food made using local produce
  • Tea garden - outdoor seating for tea-room with kiosk for drinks/snacks
  • Toilet facilities
  • Dogs - only in dog-walking area next to main car park
  • Please note that coach parties are accepted on weekdays only (Mon, Tues, Fri, excluding Bank Holidays), or at weekends during March and October
  • Bicycles can be locked to railings in the car park (at your own risk), but can't be taken into the park or garden

Family & children

  • Baby-changing facilities
  • Front-carrying baby slings and hip-carrying infant seats for loan
  • Children's quiz/trail
  • Children's guide
  • Children's activity packs
  • Family activity days

Access

  • Designated mobility parking in main car park, 10 yards. Wheelchair-accessible transfer
  • Adapted toilets in visitor car park and stable courtyard
  • Braille and large print guides
  • Sensory experience
  • Grounds - partly accessible route with slopes, some steep. Cobbled courtyard and gravel paths
  • Building - 11 steps to entrance. Alternative accessible entrance, to domestic rooms. No electric wheelchairs admitted to house due to fragile floors, manual wheelchairs can access house. Ground floor has uneven floors, low doorways. Stairs to other floors
  • Four wheelchairs available to borrow