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The Strawberry Hill Trust

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Registered Charity No. 1089660

 

 Investigate the rooms in the house using the plans below. They are a bit out of date, but only by about 200 years.

Your guides are Anna Chalcraft and Judith Viscardi with text taken from their book 'Strawberry Hill - Horace Walpole's Gothic Castle'.

Before you start, please read the rules of your tour: 

The Rules

 INSTRUCTIONS TO PERSONS WISHING TO VIEW THE VILLA AND ITS COLLECTIONS

Mr. Walpole is very ready to oblige any curious Persons with the Sight of his House and Collection: but as it is situated so near to London and in so populous a Neighbourhood, and as he refuses a Ticket to nobody that sends for one, it is reasonable that such Persons as send, should comply with the Rules he has been obliged to lay down for showing it.

I have read the rules and agree to abide by them: I agree

The following rooms in the house will be renovated:

These rooms will be used:

  • Great Cloister will become the Tea Room
  • Servants Hall will become a museum
  • Red Bedchamber will show exhibits on the conservation
  • Beauty Room will be conservation case study area
The Long Gallery The Library Round Room Holbein Chamber The Great North Bedchamber The Tribune

Principal Floor

 The Prior's, or Priory, Garden Refectory The Hall and Staircase The Great Cloister

Ground Floor