Overview

Nice afternoon spent at this Victorian Gothic style house & gardens, 20 minutes drive from Bristol. Easy parking, blue badge spaces by entrance building. Tramper all-terrain mobility scooters available right outside doors (free, but pre-booking required, just ring them day or so before). Easy to navigate tarmaced driveways or compressed gravel paths. Can’t obviously take Tramper into 19th century house, but wheelchair available at front door to access rooms downstairs if you can transfer ok. There is big staircase to upstairs so unfortunately that’s not accessible but the Volunteer gives you a photo album of upstairs which was nice to look through in the hallway whilst another Volunteer played the Grand Piano there - very atmospheric! Thought I was in Downton Abbey! 2 eateries, 1 in old stables, other near walled kitchen gardens, again accessible and we had tea & scones at the Pavilion take away cafe which has outside seating and children’s play area. Pretty gardens, but not all accessible as some steps. House has its own Chapel too which has some steps. Enough to explore for a good couple of hours, but then I may be biased as it’s near to me & the NT saved it by purchasing the house AND all its original contents, complete with Southerby’s Auction tags! 🫣

Transport & Parking

Drove by car there. 20 mins from Clevedon (M5), or 20 from Bristol. Bus stop outside, but fairly rural location, with fast, busy road outside. Long driveway if dropped at Road! Blue badge parking available at bottom of car park. Entrance building very close by. All flat & level. Through entrance slight slope down to loo’s, cafe, plant sale, shop etc. concrete slope up hill to driveway which runs around back of house. Buggy transport also available as quite a long way to house. Or there’s a pathway to the front/side of house. Go on down the driveway to the walled kitchen gardens (fully accessible), the Orangery (wheelchair accessible only, not Tramper) and the Pavilion cafe (take away, outside benches). Turn left at pond for access to the above area’s, otherwise if you go further on to these area’s, you’re going to meet some steps! Buggy transport also takes visitors to this area, and seats provided for short wait time for Buggy.

Access

See previous section!

Toilets

Didn’t use, so don’t know what like, but I did notice toilets down by the Pavilion cafe.

Staff

The staff/volunteers were absolutely wonderful 😀 the lady greeting me at entrance building and seeing to the Tramper for me was jolly, friendly but professional and thorough in her instruction how to use it (sorry I didn’t get her name!). House front door volunteer helpful with the wheelchair. An Estates Tour Guide made special effort to come over & talk with me! Buggy driver waved every time he saw me on the Tramper! Everyone very nice indeed, very welcoming.

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