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==Features==
The interior houses the [[Benton Fletcher]] collection of early [[Keyboard instrument|keyboard]] instruments, some of which are often played for visitors during operational hours, and collections of paintings (including the collection of [[Peter Barkworth]] and loans of Sir [[William Nicholson (artist)|William Nicholson]] paintings), [[porcelain]], 17th-century [[needlework]] pictures and [[Georgian era|Georgian]] [[furniture]]. It also has fine portraits of King [[William IV of the United Kingdom|William IV]] (when [[Duke of Clarence]]) and his mistress [[Dorothea Jordan]], as well as portraits of two of their illegitimate sons, [[Lord Frederick FitzClarence|Frederick FitzClarence]] and [[Lord Adolphus FitzClarence|Adolphus FitzClarence]], as one of the latter's sisters lived in the house.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} There is also a portrait of William IV's predecessor [[George IV of the United Kingdom|George IV]].
The brick mansion, with 1693 inscribed on its chimney breast which is consistent with the date of its core and most of its walls,<ref name="NHLE"/> has a 300-year-old orchard, where around 30 types of apple trees flourish. Apple day, held in late September every year, gives members of the general public the opportunity to savour some of its rare and delicious apples, along with other goodies like apple-blossom honey.
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