Although the house is named after its rare Jacobean cage-newel staircase (there are only three surviving in the country), there is so much more to a visit here than just some stairs. In fact, there’s almost everything you’d want from a historic house visit – recreated kitchens with sounds and smells, creaky floorboards, spooky basements, wattle and daub walls, historic interiors, quill writing, a multi-language audio guide. There’s even a heritage conservation story here too, showing how the site was restored after a devastating fire. It really is all there. Plus, they already had a one-way visitor route before Covid arrived, and it’s only a fiver to get in.

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