Shaw died here and his ashes were mixed together with Charlotte's, before being scattered in the garden.

The calendar shows the day he died, there's a portrait by Peter Scott together with Shaw's wheelchair and crutches.

A door leads out on to the terrace, Shaw's 'Riviera', where he would sit with friends enjoying the view.

Shaw spent much time in this room, taking two or three hours over his midday meal, spreading out his letters over the table, and deciding which ones he would reply to.

Mrs Laden recalled that towards the end of his life 'he lived on soups, eggs, milk, honey, cheese, fruit, cream and lemon juice'.

His other staff remember him enjoying strawberries, yoghurt, jacket potatoes and often seeing him eating sweets, iced cake or spooning sugar from a bowl.

In the evening after dinner he would sit listening to concerts on the radio, calling the BBC if he heard a wrong note.