Visits

Halswell House is currently undergoing a large-scale restoration and so cannot be open to individual visitors all the time. However individuals can book on the tour dates listed below and 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. 

 

Open to the Public 2018, via Invitation to View

Please click on any date to book your visit

Date	Time
Mon 07 May	1:00 pm
Mon 28 May	1:00 pm
Fri 08 Jun	1:00 pm
Wed 27 Jun	1:00 pm
Fri 13 Jul	1:00 pm
Sat 14 Jul	1:00 pm
Mon 27 Aug	1:00 pm
Mon 17 Sep	1:00 pm

Group Visits 2018

26th April  – The Devon Gardens Trust

26th April  – The Somerset Gardens Trust

4th May – Bath University Masters Degree course

25th May – The Minehead Conservation Society

7th June – The Georgian Group

17th June – Garden Party for the Church of St Edward King and Martyr, Goathurst

16th July – The Gardens Trust 

13th August – Heritage Tour Group

3rd September – Friends of the Quantocks

16th September – Heritage Open Days – Halswell House and Mill Wood open to the public

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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

http://www.sbpt.info

Wednesday, June 7th – Bob Croft Visit

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

http://www.sanhs.org/index.htm

Sunday, May 14th – BBC Radio Visit

Ann Manders is interviewed by BBC Radio show Clueless, as the Temple of Harmony is used as a clue on one of their broadcasts

Wednesday, May 3rd – Bath University Masters Degree Teaching Course Visit

The students at Bath University continue their educational visits to Halswell House for historical digs and excavations

Visits 2016

Sunday, 11th December – Historic England’s Somerset Conservation Officer’s Group Visit

https://historicengland.org.uk

Friday, 28th October – Halswell Topping Out Party

To commemorate the completion of the roof over the Elizabethan Manor House, Edward Strachan hosted a Topping Out Halloween Party at Halswell House

Monday, 17th October – SAVE Britain’s Heritage Visit to Halswell by Henrietta Billings, Emily Lunn and Mike Fox

http://www.savebritainsheritage.org

Sunday, 11th September – Heritage Open Day Visit at the Temple of Harmony

Thursday, 18th August – U3A Visit

https://halswellpark.wordpress.com/2016/08/31/u3a-visit-to-halswell-house/

Friday, 10th June – Tipple at the Temple

http://www.halswellparktrust.org.uk/events.html

Saturday, May 7th – Wiveliscombe Civics Society Visit

https://www.wiveliscombe.com

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

https://halswellpark.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/somerset-garden-trust-annual-general-meeting-and-25th-anniversary/

Saturday, 11th April – Folly Fellowship Visit

https://halswellpark.wordpress.com/2015/04/11/the-folly-fellowship-private-group-visit-to-the-house-landscape-gardens-and-of-course-the-follies-2/

 Wednesday, 18th March – Bath University Masters Teaching Course

Students from Bath University, led by Dr. Marion Harney, visit Halswell House for their Master Degree Course

2014

Tuesday, 11th November – Edward’s Birthday and the Reopening of Halswell

https://halswellpark.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/48/

Thursday, 9th October – The Georgian Group

https://halswellpark.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/the-georgian-group/