Around the House
The Morning Room
If you are in a smaller party or wish for greater privacy then we are delighted to put the Morning Room at your disposal. Decorated with beautiful antiques and rare prints of Rome, the Morning Room is a comfortable, quiet space, with a log fire, that is solely for your use.
Drawing Room
The Drawing Room is a stunning space with double height ceilings, huge sofas, a piano and a massive open fire, used for larger parties. The room is beautifully decorated, with many fine artworks, objets d’art and beautiful Persian rugs. The Drawing Room is perfect for relaxing with coffee and perhaps a glass of something a little stronger after dinner. The room is suitable for larger groups and can accommodate medium sized events, such as drinks parties, larger business meetings, or can even be an intimate wedding setting.
Dining Room
The Dining Room in Martinstown House is an intimate venue for meals, with a long antique mahogany dining table, sideboards and beautiful silver candelabra. It has fine views across the front of the property and can host up to twenty two comfortably.
The Garden
The walled garden is split into several sections by beech hedges. Firstly there is the formal Italian garden with flower beds of both wild flowers and some more exotic blooms. There is also a rose garden with sundial, a croquet lawn and an apple orchard and the Vintage Tent, where we host large celebrations. The heart of the garden is, however, the vegetable garden. Using only organic growing methods we grow much produce for the house; potatoes, carrots, leaks and lettuce, rhubarb, raspberries and other summer fruits, artichokes and sweet-pees and everything else we can coax from the ground. These vegetables are accompanied by our mature herb garden, growing mint, rosemary, basil, and plenty of others. Every year we add more to the garden and we have high ambitions for the future.
The Farm
We like to say that our chickens are extremely free ranged, because they are. They are shut up for the night, which is only prudent given the local fox population, but other than that they are given total freedom. We do steal their eggs, though- for your breakfast. Martinstown House has a fully working farm yard, and cattle and sheep are raised and oak trees are grown, and there is stabling for several horses.
By far the stars of the farm are Theodore and Barney, the rescue donkeys. They have free rain of the entire property, save the walled garden, and can often be seen wondering through the parkland, or by the icehouse.
The Dining Room The Drawing Room The Drawing Room set for Dinner Martinstown House with snowdrops Turkeys and chickens The Chandelier in the Woodlands The Morning Room The Walled Garden The Log Basket Flowers