Halswell House is currently undergoing a large-scale restoration and so cannot be open to individual visitors at this time. However we are always very pleased to host interested groups who would like to learn more about the historic buildings or have an insight into a restoration project.
Upcoming Visits
2017
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Past Visits
2017
Monday, 9th October – Historic Houses Association Group Visit
Monday, 25th September – Country Land and Business Association Group Visit
Sunday, 10th September – Heritage Open Day at the Temple of Harmony
Thursday, 10th August – Enmore and District WI Summer Party
Women of the Enmore and District WI gather at Halswell House for their summer party
Tuesday, 11th July – Picnic for Family and Goathurst
To mark the completion of the exterior of the Tudor Manor Edward hosted some family and friends for an afternoon lunch. With mid-July promising summer weather a bouncy castle, archery, laser clay pigeon shoot and other outdoor festivities were arranged to accompany a day of walks around the parkland and Mill Wood. Sadly the gods of the Somerset weather had other ideas so the assembled had to huddle around a fire inside while a gale battered anyone who ventured out of the house. None of this seemed to dampen the enthusiasm of the hardy guests.
Monday, 26th June – Somerset Building Preservation Trust Annual General Meeting
Bob Croft, County Archaeologist and his team visit after his Heritage Landscape Walk tour of Cothelstone Hill, to view the on-going digs by Marc Steinmetzer at Halswell House.
Saturday, May 20th – Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society Group Visit
Friday, 29th April – Bath University Master Degree Teaching Course Visit
The students at Bath University continue their educational visits to Halswell House for historical digs and excavations
Saturday, 23rd April – Oxford Graduates Architectural Society Group Visit
All Souls College, Oxford, 1598. Nicholas Halswell was Proctor of the college in 1480 as was Hugh Halswell in 1627. Ten Halswell men in total were at the University of Oxford in the years between these All Soul’s posts. The Tudor Knot Garden being created at Halswell House is based on the designs at All Souls when the Halswell’s were there.
Monday, 8th February – Tree Presentation with Somerset Gardens Trust
The group at the Tree Presentation event.
Monday, 18th January – Mill Wood Tree Planting with Somerset Gardens Trust
Ann Manders, Simon Bonvoisin, Ian Dier and Edward Strachan at the Tree Planting
2015
Saturday, 19th September – Somerset Gardens Trust 25th Anniversary
