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===Interior=== The entrance hall to the south range has a [[groin vault]]ed passage with three arches and piers and its walls are decorated with [[grisaille]] paintings. Its main staircase has a [[wrought iron]] handrail. On either side the old billiard room and former breakfast room have [[Adam style]] ceilings from about 1770. The link range has an entrance [[vestibule (architecture)|vestibule]] with four piers supporting a glazed [[dome]] on [[pendentive]]s. On the first floor the vestibule opens onto the half-landing of the south range's main staircase. The old drawing room has a [[Baroque architecture|Baroque]] ceiling with pendant bosses. The former library and music room were in the [[Regency architecture|Regency style]] of the 1811β14 extensions. The library had an [[apse]] where there was an organ, a coved ceiling with [[rinceau]] decoration, and a marble fireplace. The dining room was decorated in the [[Rococo style]] in about 1852. It has an elaborate marble fireplace and frieze and its ceiling is decorated with musical instruments.<ref name="EH"/>
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