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| The guided house tour takes in 11 rooms - this shows you just some of them. |
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This photograph illustrates the Music Room. Outstanding features here are the rococo ceiling, depicting the four seasons, and the fine mouldings of birds, fruit and flowers which decorate the panelling.
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The suite in the Drawing Room is covered with Chinese silk captured from a Spanish treasure ship in 1762. The Collard & Collard piano was the one on which Sir Arthur Sullivan actually composed much of Iolanthe when he stayed at the house in 1886. Gilbert also visited with his wife at the invitation of Lady Andalusia Molesworth, wife of the 8th baronet; she knew them through her love of music and theatre, having been trained as a classical singer. |
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The Pink Bedroom contains a George IV four-poster bed.
Of the numerous family portraits in the bedroom, one of particular interest is the self-portrait of Catherine St. Aubyn, a talented pupil of the Cornish artist John Opie.
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