MOOR PARK MANSION (London) – official review [with video]
Hidden well within a golf course, this Grade I-listed mansion remains a mystery even for many Londoners. And it rarely opens: read the following instructions carefully.
Built 1720s. Designed by Thornhill. Much has been changed though, as the house has been changing hands a great number of times with some tenants specialized in selling off stuff for their debts. After all these reboots it currently is both a golf club and an event venue (which explains why it has so many dining rooms now).
LOCATION. First you have to get to one of the entrances of Moor Park Golf Course. There are many options here with public transport, none of which can save you from hiking your lazy bottoms.
Walking from Moor Park tube station is obviously one of them.
You can also start from Northwood tube station and take any bus that brings you towards Mount Vernon Hospital. From there, start a 25-minute hike – you’ll be walking north going through the golf course’s vehicle entrance, and following the road all the way until you reach the very middle of the park. The mansion is on your right.
WHERE START? Just imagine this as a very low-keyed attraction with scarce information to be found online.
To join the guided tour, meet at the orangery (yet another dining room now). It is the extension wing at the other end of the tennis courts. There you’ll get coffee, leaflets and enthusiastic volunteers to introduce everything.
Everything is free.
SPOTLIGHTS.
- Lobby: four-part Roman legend cartoon ending in a severed head (and please look at the marvelous ceiling)
- Staircases with another set of Roman paintings
- Dining rooms
- Ducks kept at the rear of the house
- Garden fountain and old trees
IS IT OPEN? The mansion opens to visitors one Thursday morning per month. And in the summer months only.
Messenger me for traveling plans: CHAT
Time is asset: save it for better with 25-min museum tours. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize.
Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger
Built 1720s. Designed by Thornhill. Much has been changed though, as the house has been changing hands a great number of times with some tenants specialized in selling off stuff for their debts. After all these reboots it currently is both a golf club and an event venue (which explains why it has so many dining rooms now).
One of the dining rooms: MOOR PARK MANSION (London)
LOCATION. First you have to get to one of the entrances of Moor Park Golf Course. There are many options here with public transport, none of which can save you from hiking your lazy bottoms.
Walking from Moor Park tube station is obviously one of them.
You can also start from Northwood tube station and take any bus that brings you towards Mount Vernon Hospital. From there, start a 25-minute hike – you’ll be walking north going through the golf course’s vehicle entrance, and following the road all the way until you reach the very middle of the park. The mansion is on your right.
Take a closer look at the ceiling: MOOR PARK MANSION (London)
WHERE START? Just imagine this as a very low-keyed attraction with scarce information to be found online.
To join the guided tour, meet at the orangery (yet another dining room now). It is the extension wing at the other end of the tennis courts. There you’ll get coffee, leaflets and enthusiastic volunteers to introduce everything.
Everything is free.
Clip: MOOR PARK MANSION (London)
SPOTLIGHTS.
- Lobby: four-part Roman legend cartoon ending in a severed head (and please look at the marvelous ceiling)
- Staircases with another set of Roman paintings
- Dining rooms
- Ducks kept at the rear of the house
- Garden fountain and old trees
IS IT OPEN? The mansion opens to visitors one Thursday morning per month. And in the summer months only.
Messenger me for traveling plans: CHAT
Time is asset: save it for better with 25-min museum tours. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize.
Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger
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