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.
The trail leads you through eight key locations: the Entrance Hall, Stairway, Blue Breakfast Room, Walpole’s Bedchamber, the Gallery, Round Room, Great North Bedchamber, and the Garden.
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.
EXHIBITION: 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 MORENEWS: We’re excited to announce that the Stern and Waldegrave Collections Project page is now live! Supported by a Collections Access Grant from the Decorative Arts Society, this project catalogued over 700 artefacts related to Lady Waldegrave and the Stern family’s occupancy. You can now explore a flipbook of our collection highlights and inventory, along with two key research resources from our archives.
FIND OUT MORENEWS: Thanks to a Collections Access Grant from the Decorative Arts Society, Strawberry Hill House is set to explore the lesser-known legacies of Lady Frances Waldegrave and the Stern family. Building upon ongoing efforts to establish a comprehensive collections database, this project will allow us to extend cataloguing and research initiatives to encompass their significant contributions to the house’s storied past.
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