Track 20

Track 20.

Right, I hope you’ve had enough time to look at those fantastic portraits.

Please follow me back into the Exhibition space.

We’re going to cross this room and you’ll see that this corner of the castle is almost a mirror image of the Portrait gallery, so again we’re going to go through a little anteroom into the turret.

You can see that this room has been designed to look like a room from the 14th century.

All the furniture and even the drapes and tapestries are authentic.

Can you guess what this room was used for?

A sitting room?

No.

Well, people did sit in here, but only the ladies.

This was the sewing room!

It has the best light in the castle.

That’s why it was used for this purpose.

Next to us is the library, but we can’t access it through here.

We need to go back through the Exhibition Room and out into the hallway.

The library has some ancient manuscripts which are really valuable; that’s why you can only look through the door and not enter.

But if you keep going, back towards the main entrance, there’s a room you can enter on your left.

This was the dining room situated next to the kitchens, which I suppose makes sense.