View 1, Looking south in the Principal Bedroom

Sambourne's grand-daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse, redecorated the principal bedroom in 1960. Although she used a reprint of William Morris 'Norwich' wallpaper, the colour scheme, of mushroom for the carpet and ceiling, peach for the curtains and blue details on white paint, has given the room an eighteenth century feel rather than that of the Victorian era.

Most of the original furniture remains including the brass bed and ebonised suite of wardrobe, dressing table, bedside table and towel rail. These are decorated with white painted scrolling patterns simulating inlaid ivory.

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