Day Visits
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Thursday 17th July 2025. Travel by coach. Booking Thursday 15th May 2025. Please note that Day Visits require a good level of mobility as there is nearly always a fair degree of walking, often with steps and sometimes on uneven ground. Please ask for more information if it is a concern. Knole House, Kent A stunning house, full of treasures, owned by the same family for 400 years. One of the fifth largest properties in England, the house has seven acres of roof and 400 rooms. In the1400s it was owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury, then a Royal Palace, and latterly the Sackville’s family home.
From the beginning it was designed to impress, containing the rarest and most well preserved collections of Royal Stuart furniture, paintings, objects and textiles. The conservation department is also open for us to view their activities.
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Friday 29th August 2025 (booking Thursday 19th June 2025) Longford Castle, Bodenham, Salisbury
We have arranged an additional day visit in August, to Longford Castle. This will be on 29th August 2025, with booking at the June lecture. Longford Castle was originally built in the late 16th century to an unusual triangular plan. In the 18th century, the second Earl of Radnor employed the architect James Wyatt to transform it into a hexagonal palace.
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Wednesday 22nd October 2025. Booking Thursday 18th September 2025. Please note that Day Visits require a good level of mobility as there is nearly always a fair degree of walking, often with steps and sometimes on uneven ground. Please ask for more information if it is a concern. Leighton and Sambourne Houses, London Ornate Studio Homes in London of Two Victorian Artists. Two Victorian Wonders  Leighton House
Step into a painter’s world in the house and studio that Frederick Leighton (1830 - 1896 ) built, lived and worked in. Gorgeously decorated and hung with many of his paintings his home embodies the Victorian idea of how a great artist should live.
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