Invitation to View tours

10:30 am
£15.00

Grade II* Abberley Hall has been described by English Heritage as one of the finest remaining examples of a Victorian country house. Its history can be traced back to the medieval period but the current house was built by Samuel Daukes in 1845.

2:30 pm
Afternoon tours £17, Easter tour £18, lunch tours £27, Christmas tour £75

Late medieval/early Tudor timber-framed farmhouse with original inglenook fireplace, signed late 16th century glass window and original beams throughout. Unique collection of authentic late medieval, Tudor, Elizabethan and Stuart furniture throughout the house.

2:30 pm
£15.00

Home to the Kelly family for over 900 years, this Grade I Georgian house offers ancestral intrigue and an introduction to the social and architectural history of country houses. The house dates from the 15th century with alterations from every century until 1877. Pevsner compliments its good contemporary features. Unusual brick granary.

3:00 pm
£16.50/special tours £18.50

Once an ordinary house in an ordinary street, Talliston House and Gardens have been transformed into a series of inspiring locations, each set in a different time and place. In 25 years, the project has taken a three-bedroomed, semi-detached ex-council house in Essex and transformed it into what The Sunday Times calls ‘Britain’s most extraordinary home.’

10:30 am
£18.00

Situated in part of the original mid-nineteenth century mill buildings, the archive has nearly 100,000 samples, designs and documents showing the history of Warner & Sons.

12:00 pm
£18.00

Described by Historic England as the ‘most important site for the history of explosives in Europe’ this remarkable and beautiful landscape chronicles the development of explosives, propellants and finally rocket motors and fuels from the Civil War to the Cold War, including rare surviving WW1 factory buildings, and intriguing structures and earthworks.

2:00 pm
£35.00

This elegant Georgian house set in 100 acres of parkland boasts magnificent views across the Culm Valley in Devon, and is the much-loved family home of Lord Ivar Mountbatten.

2:30 pm
£16.00

The Grade I-listed gatehouse of Butley Priory and the arch that once led out of the south transept of the church are virtually all that remains of the Augustinian Priory founded here in 1171. Unique features are the extensive armorial frieze on the north side and exuberant flushwork decoration.

2:30 pm
£15.00

Queen Anne/Jacobean revival-style building having many original features. It has been in continuous use since 1884 as a purpose-built hostel for female students of music and science.

2:30 pm
£18.00

One of the finest Arts and Crafts houses in Britain, built by E.S. Prior for Percy Lloyd, 1903-5. 'By far the most interesting building in this part of Norfolk... a violently idiosyncratic house reminiscent of Gaudi,' says Pevsner.