Stanway House & Fountain

The house has been lived in by the Tracy and Wemyss families since 1533 and remains very much a private home, opened on a few summer afternoons each week. The main range, a 1630s gatehouse, and the great hall with its Jacobean shuffleboard table are the highlights inside.

Outside, a Victorian cascade and a 21st-century gravity fountain — engineered to the limit of what the head of water can support — perform in the formal gardens twice each open afternoon. It is single-jet, single-pulse spectacle, and worth timing your visit around.