Welcome guide

1 Welcome to Sudley House

This guide will help you find your way around the house, if you have any questions please ask a member of staff to help you.

• The main entrance to Sudley House is signposted for cars from Entrance to the Sudley House estate for Road. vehicles from North Sudley Road • If you are using public transport the nearest train station is .

• There is limited parking outside the Main Entrance.

• The main entrance is fully accessible without steps.

• In fine weather the back entrance to the house will be open. This is Main entrance from road accessed via Sudley fields which are managed by City Council.

• The back gate leads you to the café courtyard and house via two short flights of steps.

Main entrance

2 Staff Staff wear blue shirts and name badges. Fire Alarms If the fire alarm sounds please follow staff instructions and ask for assistance if required. Fire alarm tests are planned, if unexpected loud noises are a concern to you please call the gallery in advance to check when the next test will take place. Floor plan Member of staff You can see the house is made up of lots of small rooms. You can walk a round the rooms in any order. Not all of the rooms lead to other rooms so you may need to exit a room the way you came in.

Ground Floor First Floor

3 MAIN HALL

The entrance takes visitors through to the Main Hall where, on the left hand side, is the Information Desk.

Information desk

Staff can help with any questions: Information desk • If you have any problems in the house.

• If you want to know what events are happening.

• If you are separated from a group.

• If you have lost property in the house.

Lifts

• To the back of the Main Hall on the First Floor lift entrance right, there is a lift that you can use to travel between the Ground and First Floors.

• This lift has glass walls.

First Floor lift

4 Toilets

• There are accessible toilets on both floors of the house.

• You do not need a RADAR key to use the accessible toilets.

• We do not have a Changing Places toilet at the house. Corridor to toilets • The Ground Floor toilets and baby changing facility are in the corridor to the right of the Main Hall which leads to the café and garden courtyard.

• Upstairs at the end of the corridor leading to the Learning Suite there is a unisex toilet and an accessible toilet.

Lockers

Toilet doors • We do not have lockers at the House.

• You may be asked not to bring very large bags or rucksacks into the house.

Signs for toilets

5 GROUND FLOOR GALLERIES

• The Ground Floor is where the majority of the paintings, sculpture, furniture, tapestries and decorative art collection are on display.

• It is made up of the Main Hall, Library, Garden Hall, Drawing Room, Dining Room and Morning Room. The Library • The rooms all connect and you can explore the rooms in whichever order you would like.

• There are TV screens with introductions to each room where actors in costume impersonate members of the Holt family who used to live in the house. You do not have to switch these on but they may be playing if other visitors have been watching them. Television screen

The Drawing Room

6 • There are hand outs explaining the history of the room and paintings.

Hand outs

The Dining Room

The Morning Room Main and Garden Halls (from the main entrance)

7 FIRST FLOOR

Upstairs at the House we have the temporary exhibition space and Childhood Rooms with books and puzzles for young children.

There are historic children’s toys on display.

The Childhood Rooms

The Childhood Rooms

8 The Learning Suite and Riverside Room

• These rooms are used for events and meetings, if empty you can use either room as a quiet space.

• Details of events can be found on our website: liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ sudley/events

The Learning Suite

The Riverside Room

9 Café, courtyard and the wider estate

• The café is on the Ground Floor and serves tea, coffee, cakes and light lunches. Our coffee machine can be quite loud.

• It has seasonal opening hours so please check times before your visit. Café courtyard and Sudley fields • If you enter through the back gate from the Sudley fields you will enter into the café courtyard. There are steps into the house from this entrance.

• The house is surrounded by the Hillsborough memorial garden, green fields and some woodland trees managed by Liverpool City Council. It is a beautiful area to enjoy before or after your visit. Café

The Sudley Estate

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