Apart from the later insertion of sash windows, the exterior of Dunham Massey is mostly unchanged. It is an attractive long, low red-brick building set round two courtyards and still protected by the medieval moat that embraced the earlier Tudor house.
These handsome Edwardian interiors, from the splendid Great Hall to the vast kitchen, evoke the way of life of those who lived and worked here in past centuries.
Visitors can sit on the Elizabethan mount; enjoy the sweet-scented myrtle in the Orangery; or wander alongside the Edwardian water garden.
In the stables there is a restaurant on the first floor, and a shop stocked with a range of National Trust merchandise.
Ancient trees still outline the formal avenues planted 250 years ago by the 2nd Earl of Warrington.
The deer park is surrounded by a high brick wall and shaded in parts by ancient trees.
An exhibition in the slaughterhouse gives information about these and other fauna and flora in the park.
An important buffer zone for wildlife, the 25-hectare parkland provides an ideal rural setting for the eighteenth-century mansion and includes a medieval deer park.
Dunham Massey is one of the last remaining unaltered formal English parklands.
