The Manor House, Gardens and Tea Rooms are open to the public 10 months a year along with the adjacent Museum of Rural Life, home to many of Alford's historic artefacts. The Manor House also hosts various exhibitions and maintains a busy programme of events each year. The venue is also available to hire for weddings, funeral teas, meetings and private functions.
The Cafe and Tea Rooms are open to all members of the public, not just those paying to tour the Manor House. Alford Manor House is a registered charity run by volunteers. Admission fees and the proceeds from the Tea Rooms go towards the preservation and upkeep of the attraction ensuring it can be enjoyed by current and future generations.
The Cafe and Tea Rooms are open to all members of the public, not just those paying to tour the Manor House. Alford Manor House is a registered charity run by volunteers. Admission fees and the proceeds from the Tea Rooms go towards the preservation and upkeep of the attraction ensuring it can be enjoyed by current and future generations.
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The house is a very rare example of a composite structure, featuring a wooden frame with reed and plaster (visible from within the house), encased in brick. The ground floor and first floor rooms feature design interventions from Georgian through to Victorian times, whilst the attic floor is virtually untouched since 1611.
Our garden is maintained by volunteers' to be an attractive visitor experience and provide herbs and vegetables for sale and use by the house chef. There is a plot dedicated to medicinal herbs, also plots of vegetables and flowers for cutting. We grow a range of fruits including strawberries gooseberries, raspberries, black & red currants and loganberries.
Try our exquisite home-made cakes and biscuits in our beautiful tea rooms or why not have your light lunch alfresco if the weather permits? Tea room gift vouchers now available. In summer many of the fruits and vegetables come from the Manor House and members gardens. Where possible, we use locally sourced ingredients.
We hope to have a building to house the collection in its entirety and this is just a very small selection on show. We are working with grant funders to raise the money to build this new home for the collection.
This was a period of rapid advancement in radio technology from crystal sets and simple valve receivers, using batteries long aerials, headphones and moving iron loudspeakers, to the much more sophisticated radios of the late 1930's employing superheterodyne techniques to improve reception and selectivity, automatic volume control (avc) to make tuning more user-friendly and moving coil speakers giving a much better depth of sound.
This was a period of rapid advancement in radio technology from crystal sets and simple valve receivers, using batteries long aerials, headphones and moving iron loudspeakers, to the much more sophisticated radios of the late 1930's employing superheterodyne techniques to improve reception and selectivity, automatic volume control (avc) to make tuning more user-friendly and moving coil speakers giving a much better depth of sound.
Alford Manor House owes much of its existence to the wealth of one of its owners, Sir Robert Christopher, and through marriage to the Manners dynasty (the Dukes of Rutland), as well as to its tenants, most notably the Higgins family. Alford Manor House was built, we suspect, by John Hopkinson in 1611.
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