There are ornamental lakes and extensive meadows all around the house and all are open and free to the public during opening hours.
In 1761, the Child family, founders of Child's Bank, commissioned the fashionable architect, Robert Adam, to transform a crumbling Tudor mansion into an elegant neo classical villa. Noel and I took a tour of the house which has a very interesting history. It is furnished and decorated in the neo classical style which I find very appealing.