Shugborough Hall | mansion / manor house / villa, interesting place, Grade I Listed (UK)

 mansion / manor house / villa, interesting place, Grade I Listed (UK)

Grade I Listed Building
Ancestoral home of the Earls of Lichfield, including the famous photographer Lord Patrick Lichfield who died in 2006. Much of the grounds and some of the Hall itself is open to the public, including a working model farm museum dating from 1805 complete with a working watermill, kitchens and dairy, and rare breeds of farm animals and a tea room. The walled garden, also dating from 1805, was restored in 2006 and is now also open to the public. Within the historical servants' quarters the brewhouse is to be found, which was restored in 1990. It is the only log-fired brewery in the country that still produces beer commercially. Plans are in place to open this to the public every weekend from 2007 onwards.
The grounds also contain several attractive follies and the Shugborough House inscription, which is thought by some to be an uncracked ciphertext containing a clue to the location of the Holy Grail.
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