National Trust Properties and Landscapes

At its heart Tyntesfield is a Victorian country house and estate, which serves as a backdrop to the remarkable story of four generations of the Gibbs family. Their tale charts the accumulation of wealth from the guano trade, transformation of a Georgian house to a Victorian Gothic masterpiece and the collection of over 70,000 objects.

Barrington Court, located in the stunning south Somerset countryside, is a charming Tudor manor house complimented beautifully with Gertrude Jekyll-inspired gardens, apple orchards and a working kitchen garden.

Montacute House is a masterpiece of Elizabethan Renaissance architecture and design

Fortified home of the Luttrells for 600 years, remodelled 100 years ago. Fine 17thC staircase and plaster ceilings. Terrace garden of rare shrubs.

Designed by John Wood the Younger, the Bath Assembly Rooms is a Grade 1 listed building that's part of the UNESCO World Heritage city of Bath. The New or Upper Rooms as they were known, provided a place for people to meet and enjoy daily entertainments including balls, concerts, teas and gambling. ‘Polite society’ flocked to the Rooms, including novelists Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, and the painter Thomas Gainsborough.

Magical landscape garden with winding paths, hidden features and views over Bath, created in the 1700s by Ralph Allen, with advice from 'Capability' Brown and the poet Alexander Pope. Prior Park is home to one of only four Palladian bridges in the world, inspired by Italian architect Andrea Palladio.

Fyne Court is a hidden gem in the heart of the Quantock Hills. Explore a wild garden, reclaimed by nature after once being part of a family estate.

Historic home of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Somerset near Bridgwater
As in the poets’ day, there is still wilderness, heathland and a rocky shoreline where you can lose yourself in thought. The mix of heath on the top is a characteristic of the Quantocks and includes heather, whortleberry, gorse, bracken and wavy-haired grass. There is woodland too, once prized as a source of timber for ship building and now by walkers for its tranquillity. The oaks here are Sessile with acorns that grow directly on the branch and twisted trunks.

Home to the lords of the manor of Clevedon for centuries, the core of the house is a remarkable survival from the medieval period.

Brean Down is a wonderful location for a day out in Somerset.