The restored Chinese Drawing Room at Trent Park House
Since the opening of a museum on the restored ground floor and basement of Trent Park House, more than 15,500 visitors have stepped through the doors.
The Trent Park House of Secrets museum sends out a regular email newsletter with updates about what has been happening at the museum recently and a list of specialised guided tours focusing on historical uses of the house coming up in the near future.
The latest mailout includes a video made earlier in the year, in the run-up to the museum opening. It's an interview with the curator, Tori Reeve, and includes footage showing some of the rooms restored to their appearance in a particular point of history.
The rooms on the ground floor, such as the Chinese Drawing Room (pictured above), show the style in which the Sassoon family would have hosted visitors.
A very different scene greets visitors to the basement rooms where during World War II the “Secret Listeners” discovered what the mansion's wartime “guests” - high-ranking German prisoners-of-war - were talking about. Newly captured officers in particular were keen to spill the beans and brief existing POWs about the latest important German military plans and secrets, unaware that their every word was being listened to down in the basement.
Read the latest Trent Park House of Secrets email newsletter