An Elizabethan park with a famous Jacobean house which had a great Jacobean garden, designed by Thomas Chaundler, Salomon de Caus and John Tradescant. The layout has changed many times since then but now has a 'seventeenth century character' with terraces and garden enclosures, including a knot garden, herb garden and privy garden. The East Garden adjoining the Jacobean house is more formally planted with its parterre, topiary, herbaceous borders and vegetable garden. The park is well-wooded has an ancient avenue of oak trees.