Owletts (NT)

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Overview

The family home of prominent British architect Sir Herbert Baker, who donated it to the nation when he died, Owletts is a 17th-century red-brick house, small by stately home standards. With its beautiful stained glass oval window, ornate plasterwork ceiling, Carolean staircase and furniture amassed by Baker, there is much to enjoy inside the house, including some rare 18th-century bright green flocked wallpaper with an unusual brick pattern background. Found in one of the upstairs bedrooms, this fashionable wall-covering was some of the first of its kind and must have been a real talking point when it was new. Outside the house, you can walk around the well-stocked kitchen garden and have your picnic on the sun-soaked lawn - both extremely popular pastimes in summer. A recently extended tea room puts the cherry on top (literally) of a visit to Owletts.

Location

The Street, COBHAM, DA12 3AP

About the area

Kent is home to the White Cliffs of Dover, an English icon that marks the point where the Kent Downs AONB stretches from the Surrey Hills down to the sea. Visitors can explore historic parklands, including Knole Park and Sir Winston Churchill’s former home at Chartwell, or beautiful nature reserves, such as the coppiced woodlands of Denge Wood and Earley Wood and the ancient fine chalk woodland of Yockletts Bank.

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Owletts (NT)

The Street, COBHAM, DA12 3AP

01732 810378

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Owletts (NT)

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Overview

The family home of prominent British architect Sir Herbert Baker, who donated it to the nation when he died, Owletts is a 17th-century red-brick house, small by stately home standards. With its beautiful stained glass oval window, ornate plasterwork ceiling, Carolean staircase and furniture amassed by Baker, there is much to enjoy inside the house, including some rare 18th-century bright green flocked wallpaper with an unusual brick pattern background. Found in one of the upstairs bedrooms, this fashionable wall-covering was some of the first of its kind and must have been a real talking point when it was new. Outside the house, you can walk around the well-stocked kitchen garden and have your picnic on the sun-soaked lawn - both extremely popular pastimes in summer. A recently extended tea room puts the cherry on top (literally) of a visit to Owletts.

Location

The Street, COBHAM, DA12 3AP

About the area

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Kent is home to the White Cliffs of Dover, an English icon that marks the point where the Kent Downs AONB stretches from the Surrey Hills down to the sea. Visitors can explore historic parklands, including Knole Park and Sir Winston Churchill’s former home at Chartwell, or beautiful nature reserves, such as the coppiced woodlands of Denge Wood and Earley Wood and the ancient fine chalk woodland of Yockletts Bank.

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