PETWORTH HOUSE at CHRISTMAS. Tuesday 5th December 2023. £65.00pp

 17th century house in West Sussex with one of the finest National Trust art collections. The rooms of the 17th-century mansion have been transformed with more than 80 magnificently decorated trees, the Marble Hall houses miniature mice scenes where mice could be found skiing down snowy slopes, and climbing ladders into the trees, and there was deer crafted from winter greenery. The house contains the National Trust’s finest collection of pictures, with numerous works by Turner, Van Dyck, Reynolds and Blake, ancient and Neo-classical sculpture, fine furniture and carvings by Grinling Gibbons.

Leave Faversham at 9.00am. Leave house at 3.00pm