Whatever your summer brings, Strawberry Hill House offers something for everyone - from Summer Live Music Lates to farcical Shakespearean fun with the HandleBards, magical faery trails to open air concerts and community BBQs.
Strawberry Hill House & Garden, created by Horace Walpole in the 18th century, has been open to visitors for over 250 years. This extraordinary building is internationally famous as Britain’s finest example of Georgian Gothic revival architecture and home to an increasingly important collection of paintings and objects.
Opening Times
House & Shop: Saturday – Wednesday, 11am – 4pm. Last entry 3pm.
Garden & Café: Saturday – Wednesday, 9am – 4pm. Garden free entry.
(The House, Garden, and Café will be open seven days a week during the school summer holidays)
Bank Holidays and weekends can be busy, so we recommend booking online to guarantee availability. You can also save money on your tickets when you book online.
Whatever your summer brings, Strawberry Hill House offers something for everyone - from Summer Live Music Lates to farcical Shakespearean fun with the HandleBards, magical faery trails to open air concerts and community BBQs.
The flower festival returns this September, transforming Strawberry Hill House & Garden into a faery-tale realm where imagination runs wild. Early Bird Tickets are on sale for 12 – 14 September.
Summer Live Music Late (live music from Apollo’s Cabinet)
19 June 2025 at Sessions from 6pm-7:30pm
LGBTQ+ House Tour to Celebrate Pride
25 June 2025 at Doors open 6:30pm, tour starts 7:00pm
HOUSE TREASURE TRAIL: Explore the lives and legacies of Lady Frances Waldegrave and the Stern Family with this self-guided treasure trail, created to accompany our Strawberry Hill After Walpole exhibition. As you explore, look closely — you’ll find fascinating traces of the house’s Victorian and Edwardian past hidden in plain sight! You can download the trail as a PDF to use during your visit. Produced by Collections Assistant, Dr Rosalind White.
FIND OUT MOREEXHIBITION: Join us in the newly opened Pantry, for ‘Strawberry Hill After Walpole: The Waldegrave and Stern Legacies’. Curated by Cas Bradbeer, Sara Pope and Dr Rosalind White, this exhibition spotlights a lesser-known chapter in the house’s history, when, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Lady Waldegrave and the Stern family revived it into a hub of political influence, artistic patronage, and high society.
FIND OUT MOREBLOG: Find out the full lost and found story of the miniature that Horace Mann gifted to Walpole. This miniature, once thought to have been of Bianca Capella, went missing for more than 180 years and is returning to the house in January 2025.
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Strawberry Hill House offers a range of opportunities to get involved in activities taking place in all areas of the House and Garden.
Within easy reach of central London, Strawberry Hill House is a stunning space for hosting a variety of events.
We need your support to keep the house open for generations to come. Become a member or donate to our fundraising initiatives today.
Strawberry Hill House is internationally famous as Britain’s finest example of Georgian Gothic Revival architecture.
