Hi Norma,
We should exchange e mails which I understand we have to do in a private message. Give me a few weeks to gather up the photos which are mostly family pics, with the house in the background. You can also see an aerial picture of it if you go on google earth.
When we bought it an elderly widow of the gamekeeper was living alone in it, she was leaving to live with her family, and the estate was selling the property.
Some remnants of the original furniture were left, most interesting for your story was the old gun cupboard used by the game keepers, a table with two locking drawers that still had bullets in and a lovely old set of narrow, upright drawers, that contained a few tools. The desk and the drawers belonged to the school teachers but were being used by game keepers. We still have these things so I'll photograph them, the drawers are perfect for art materials. But these would be things familiar to your gg grandmother, all of them from the 1800's.
When I was gardening an old garden chair was unearthed, about 6 inches below the surface. It was teak and looked very old, maybe she sat in it. We oiled it and I remember the local farmer seeing it and wanting to buy it. We used it for decades and only just this summer it has collapsed, but I do have a photo of it!
Best wishes, Tanya.
