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The Phillip Webb Wing

In the Victorian period Philip Webb was instructed by the then owner Sir Lawrence Jones to add a Wing and clock-tower to the hall to provide a billiard room, ballroom and more guest bedrooms, together with a coach-house and stables all of which are now Grade II*. It is this pleasure wing with its own entrances and walled cottage garden which is now available to rent.

The Wing is entered from the Italian Courtyard and the main door leads into the entrance hall. The wing faces south and its large windows make sure the house is flooded with sunlight.

The Drawing Room / Library / Kitchen-Dining Room

The drawing room/library (measures 34 x 26 ft. and used to be a small ballroom, and is now a lofty drawing room with a library of some 2,000 books, handsome but with an easy elegance. The four full length windows look out onto the lawns with lavender and nepeta flower beds all sheltered by lOft high yew hedges. The windows have working wooden shutters which fold to allow just the right amount of sun to flood in.
On the wooden floor there is thick pile Donegal rug on which rest two late Victorian chesterfields and a Howard sofa with silk down cushions. There are two show-wood Edwardian arm chairs covered in blue and white ticking. The walls are painted in sugar bag blue and are divided at each end by large mahogany doors which in turn are flanked by white arched recesses, lined with porcelain. The large open fireplace is surrounded by a white carved wood chimney-piece over which hangs a landscape oil painting.
There are two Chinese black and gold lacquer cabinets, one of which contains the TV/Video/Hifi and video, tape and LP library.
 

The Bedrooms

To rent the whole wing which can sleep up to 8 people, and have use of all the other three bedrooms, see the Tariffs page for details.

Up the steep staircase to the floor above the drawing room where on a long landing there are three bedrooms, two large double beds, and a room with twin beds. All these rooms are sunny, cosy and with southerly aspect. The blue room with double bed has William Morris curtains and some dressing table arts and crafts chairs, the cream room has again William Morris curtains, dressing table and painted occasional chairs and the twin bedded 'Green Room' has green and white Jane Churchill paper and green and white Colefax chintz curtains. All the walls are covered in water colours and antique prints lit by plenty of lamps and porcelain bowls of pot-pourri and there is always fresh white linen and fluffy towels.
Children love the tree swing on the high branches of the sweet chestnut tree and the tree-house. When it is raining they play with the toy soldiers on the fort and the fire engine, or watch Pooh Bear and the Jungle Book.