Chastleton House

Over het museum

Chastleton House was built between 1607 and 1612 for Walter Jones, a lawyer and wool merchant who had bought the land from the estate of Robert Catesby, one of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators. The house was meant to show the wealth and rising status of its owner, and it is counted among the best surviving country houses of the early 17th century, although nobody knows who designed it.

The same family owned the house until 1991. Falling fortunes after the Civil War, when the Joneses were fined for their Royalist loyalties, meant that there was little money for changes, so the rooms, furniture and textiles slowly aged instead of being modernised. Three members of the 19th-century Whitmore-Jones family invented games that are still played, and Walter Whitmore-Jones wrote down the rules of modern croquet. From 1955 the artistic Clutton-Brock family lived at Chastleton and added books, records and paintings of their own.

The National Trust took over the property in 1991 and has chosen to conserve the house as it was found rather than restore it. Visitors see the Great Hall, the Great Chamber with its high-relief ceiling, the Long Gallery with its barrel-vaulted plaster ceiling, tapestries woven in Flanders, 1720s crewelwork bed hangings and rare Jacobite glass, as well as a small walled garden, a dovecote and the church next door.

Hoogtepunten

• Jacobean Great Hall, Great Chamber and Long Gallery with a barrel-vaulted ceiling
• Flemish tapestries and 1720s crewelwork bed hangings in the Fettiplace Room
• Rare engraved Jacobite glass
• Gardens with the lawns where the rules of croquet were written down
• Dovecote and church teas on most open days

Vaste collectie

• The house – A Jacobean mansion kept as a time capsule, with the Great Hall, Long Gallery, Flemish tapestries and Jacobite glass.
• The garden – A set of small walled garden spaces including the Best Garden, Kitchen Garden, Wilderness Walk and the croquet lawns.

Beheerder

National Trust

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

Prices are standard admission without the Gift Aid donation; with Gift Aid an adult pays £16.50, a child £8.30 and families £41.30 or £24.80. Entry is free for National Trust members.

Toegankelijkheid

• Deels rolstoeltoegankelijk
• Lift: geen informatie
• Aangepast toilet
• Gehandicaptenparkeerplaats
• Hulphonden welkom
• Tastmodellen / voelbare objecten: geen informatie
• Rondleidingen in gebarentaal: geen informatie
• Informatie in eenvoudige taal: geen informatie
• Audiodescriptie: geen informatie

There is no step-free access to the house. One wheelchair is available for use on the ground floor only. Accessible parking is closer to the house, but visitors should first collect their ticket at visitor reception. Accessible toilets are near the house and at visitor reception. Braille guides are available, and there is an induction loop at visitor reception. The site has ramps, slopes, steps and uneven ground, and seating is provided.

Kinderen & gezin

• Verschoonruimte

Baby-changing facilities are available. Child tickets are for ages 5 to 17 and a family ticket covers up to 3 children.

Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

The house is 6 miles from Stow-on-the-Wold and should be approached only from the A436 between the A44 and Stow-on-the-Wold. For satellite navigation use GL56 0SP, then follow the brown signs rather than the signs to Chastleton village.

Service & horeca

• Museumwinkel

There is no National Trust café. Church teas are served on most open days by local charities and the church. The shop is a second-hand bookshop that also sells local produce and plants. Toilets are near the house and at visitor reception.

Evenementen & zaalverhuur

Het museum heeft hierover geen informatie gepubliceerd.

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