Drayton House

Drayton House has been a family home for almost a thousand years. The core of the house built by Simon de Drayton about 1300 still survives, but the house is especially important for the transformation it had during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The house has a unique spiral cantilever oak staircase of c.1680 and a superb embroidered State Bed of 1700. The house passed to the Sackville family in 1770, but only two rooms were changed, being redecorated in the Adam manner. The house, therefore, still reflects its medieval origins and the taste of the Baroque period, and remains very much a family home.

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Visits by groups by prior written appointment (Mininum group of 12). Study days with presentation & guided visits to both house and church by arrangement (Tues-Thurs, not weekends, Easter to October).