Open House
Foremost amongst Wolfeton's many unique features is the fabulously ornate Elizabethan and Jacobean wood carving
Visitors to Wolfeton House follow a rutted track across water meadows, filled with grazing sheep and gamboling lambs. It's a bucolic scene, but nothing in comparison to the house itself, which is reminiscent of a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale: the ancient gatehouse, glimpsed through the trees, seems a sight too romantic and otherworldly to be real.
Dating from the 1400s, the gatehouse, with its non-identical twin towers joined by an arched gateway,
