A beautiful restored timber-framed Tudor house, home to some of the country’s famous historical characters.

Henry VIII who fortified the Isle of Wight against the French Fleet, with Anne Boleyn who was the second of his six wives.

William Shakespeare the famous Elizabethan playwright, with Queen Elizabeth I ‘The Virgin Queen’.

Louis de Rochefort, The assassination of this French emissary.

King Charles I and Sir John Oglander of Nunwell, Brading, Isle of Wight, plotting Charles escape from Carisbrooke Castle.

The Skivvy, a Victorian scullery maid at rest in her attic room.

Valentine Grey, the boy chimney sweep.

Little Jane Squibb, on her death bed, with the Reverend Legh Richmond.

Sophie Dawes (Madame la Baronne de Feucheres, Queen of Chantily) the voluptuous winkle-picker, famed for compromising French King Louis Phillipe.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, the famous Poet Laureate.

The legendary figure, the Hermit of Culver Cliff.

Old Hag in the Stocks, receiving her punishment.

George Bernard Shaw riding his Starley tricycle whilst on holiday in Bonchurch, Isle of Wight.

The skeleton at the organ in the Chapel of Rest and a young lady rising from the dead.

The beautiful galleried courtyard with it’s Kissing Arch, Priest Hole, Fountains, Gargoyles and Grotesques.