The arcaded oak wainscotting is early 17th century and is inlaid with holly and bog oak. It may have been made for another of the Legh houses, Bradley in Lancashire.

William Howe Windham had the four windows of the Great Hall of the south wing fitted out in 1840 with a collection of medieval, Renaissance and nineteenth-century glass which was installed by John Dixon of Norwich.

One of the finest 17th-century houses in Norfolk, Felbrigg Hall was the home of the Windham family and its successors for 300 years. The house itself has a distinguished and varied pedigree. The Jacobean entrance front, built mainly in 1620, is attributed to Robert Lyminge (d1628). A west wing was added in 1674-86 to the designs of William Samwell (1628-1676), with interior plasterwork by Edward Goudge. In 1751-56 the Palladian architect James Paine (1717-1789) designed a service wing, Gothic library, staircase and several rooms, with interior decoration by Joseph Rose (1745-1799). In 1840, the great hall was remodelled in a neo-Jacobean style by John Chessell Buckler (1793-1884) and George Buckler (1811-1886).

The Gardner Wilkinson Library.

Containing books and manuscripts left to Sir John Harper Crewe by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, a well-known Egyptologist of his time.

Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875) spent many years in Egypt from 1821 studying ancient monuments and transcribing the hieroglyphic inscriptions. He was a cousin of Georgiana. Lady Harpur and left Sir John Harpur his library, sketchbooks and notes.

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With peeling paintwork and overgrown courtyards, Calke Abbey tells the story of the dramatic decline of a country house estate. The house and stables are little restored, with many abandoned areas vividly portraying a period in the 20th century when numerous country houses did not survive to tell their story.

The site was an Augustinian priory from the 12th century until its dissolution by Henry VIII. The present building, named Calke Abbey in 1808, was never actually an abbey, but is a Baroque mansion built between 1701 and 1704.