The town house, built c.1722, is renowned for its very fine plaster and wood rococo decoration and includes displays on the Quaker banking family who owned it and the Peckover Bank. The outstanding 0.8ha (2 acre) Victorian garden includes an orangery, summer houses, roses, herbaceous borders, fernery, croquet lawn and 17th-century thatched barn, which is available for weddings and functions. What’s new in 2004: 900-year-old Parva catachesis (a Greek religious manuscript formerly owned by Lord Peckover) returns to be on display in the library. New guidebook