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A brief introduction Making the most of your day
Wightwick Need a break – the tea-room is situated (pronounced in the old garage and stable block, a far ‘wittick’) has cry from the riches of the house. Take been inhabited home a souvenir from the shop in the since before the Old Manor building. Look in the old doomsday book. Kitchen at the back for curing hooks The remains and the inglenook fireplace as well as of the original Your guide to our special Morris inspired products. 1600’s Old Manor Sir Geoffrey Mander building can still Wightwick Manor be seen and is The family loved taking photographs, now the shop with so take as many as you like in the the Malthouse gardens. You are also welcome to take & Garden behind. photos without flash in all rooms of the house except the Oak Room. Professional photography by prior arrangement only. Anthea Mander Find out about the house by asking one of our volunteers; look in one of our scrap books to read original The main Manor was built in 1887 for the Mander documents; delve deeper with a family, Wolverhampton paint, varnish and ink modern reference book or find the manufactures. The house looks back to the ‘Old individual item in our reference folder. English’ style of timber and brick buildings and was Discover our collection at extended in 1893. www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk Rosalie Lady Mander Theodore Mander and his wife Flora were influenced by the Aesthetic and Arts & Crafts styles, but the house If you want to sit down in the house reflects their own personal tastes rather than following you can sit on any seat with a cat. fashion. Lady Mander’s cats ruled the house and used to be the only things allowed to sit on the furniture. Tabby Dogs are welcome anywhere in the garden on a lead. Assistance dogs only are allowed in the house, shop and tea- room. Please pick up after your dog – full bags can be put in the bins outside Discover fascinating stories the tea-room, shop and reception. about the history of Wightwick Manor, Alphonse the Mander family and their art collection For the enjoyment of other visitors and the Following their deaths in 1900 and 1905 the house was and what you can do today protection of the buildings Wightwick is a inherited by Geoffrey their son. In 1937 he gave both non-smoking site Manor and garden to the National Trust, and with it a new chapter in Wightwick’s story started… Fold Fold