About
Wade bought the derelict Tudor manor in 1919 and spent the next thirty years filling it with the things he loved — musical instruments, bicycles, toys, tools, costume — arranged by atmosphere rather than category. He himself slept in the unheated Priest's House next door.
The collection passed to the National Trust in 1951 with Wade's instruction that nothing be labelled. The result is part museum, part fever dream — and one of the most memorable house visits in England.
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A tiny hilltop hamlet of golden stone above the Vale of Evenlode — and the surprise of England's largest lavender field a mile down the lane.
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