This is Peckover House in the Town of Wisbech , the house and garden are now in the hands of the national trust, so as we are members we went along today to visit.
A massive Wisteria covers the front of the lower floor of the house.
This lady was playing the piano in the library and very good she was too!
I loved the colour and pattern of the library walls, it was slightly deeper than shown in the photo.
This was the dinning room.
These little screens are called 'snob screens ' , love it! because the house was used as a bank and therefore customers were passing the windows, these screens were put in do give the Peckovers some privacy.
The bedroom.
The view of some of the garden from the bedroom window.
A model of the house was on display in one of the upstairs rooms.
the front of the house.
The rooms from the front.
The back stairs, although these are actually at the side.
The view from the window showing the Georgian houses across the river from these ones.
This was the Breakfast room but would have also at times been used as a study or school room. It overlooks the garden.
The servants sitting room set out as in 1935 .
The trusty singer sewing machine !
a paper of that time.
You could listen on this phone to an evacuee recounting their time at Peckover House during world war 2.
The house sits in two acres of the most beautiful gardens, here a few photos I took , the rest I will share on our gardening blog.
The Orangery.
from the side
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I love gardens that have gates or opening into other areas.
The red border.
The border leading away from the red border
Th cutting border.
The greenhouse.
Just outside the greenhouse.
The Reed Barn , which once would have stood in the middle of a field but is now used for the tearooms and secondhand book shop and plant sales.
We had a nice sandwich and freshly cooked scones with our cream tea.
Of course we could not leave without checking out the plants and the book shop.
In the second hand book shop I found this Kaffe Fassett book for £2 !
and we also bought these two plants.
Then back through the garden to the house and out via the side gate between the house and the old bank house.
Where of course we stopped to look in the tiny National Trust shop and picked up..
a garden book and a dvd of a film that was shot in the house starring Peter O'Toole , Jeremy Northam , Brian Brown and Sam O'Neill , some very fine actors, so we chanced the film.
We are bought...
Percy Porker the Peckover Pig! well that's what we are calling him !
Well that was a quick , yes it was I did take 164 photos!, tour of this wonderful house and garden, it's one of the best NT gardens I've seen.
Wishing you all a wonderful month ahead. Back to Sasha tomorrow.
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