Cambridgeshire Visit: Farm Hall & Island Hall

Louise Robertson

CAMBRIDGESHIRE VISIT: Farm Hall and Island Hall, Godmanchester £75, all day These two handsome red brick Grade II* houses of the 1740s share many stylistic similarities, both playing significant roles …

*Sold Out* London Visit: The Charterhouse

Louise Robertson

£40, afternoon Set in the heart of Clerkenwell, the Charterhouse has been living the Nation’s history since 1348. Initially a Black Death burial ground, the site became home to the …

Hampshire Visit: Stratfield Saye House

Louise Robertson

£50 (inc. refreshments & lunch), all day In the heart of the English countryside on the Hampshire/Berkshire border, you’ll find the elegant, but intimate, Stratfield Saye House, home to the …

Sudbury Visit: Gainsborough’s House & Sudbury

Louise Robertson

£40 (exc. lunch), all day Winner of the Georgian Group Architectural Award for Restoration of a Georgian Building in an Urban Context Gainsborough’s House, the childhood home of one of …

Manchester Visit: Heaton Hall

Louise Robertson

£25, morning Heaton Hall, a fine neo-classical building, was the ancestral home of the Egerton family.  Sir Thomas Egerton, the 7th baronet, had the Hall rebuilt in the 1770s with …

*Sold Out* London Visit: 195 Mare Street

Louise Robertson

£25, morning Built in 1697 as a grand country house for a Dutch merchant, 195 Mare Street is one of Hackney’s oldest buildings. The house became the Elizabeth Fry Refuge …

*Sold Out* Brentford Visit: Boston Manor House

Louise Robertson

£25, morning Commended at the Georgian Group Architectural Awards in 2022, Boston Manor House was subject to alteration and extension in the 18th and 19th centuries and has suffered a …