Save the date! Our popular snowdrop weekend will be on the 15th & 16th February 2025!
Save the date: Snowdrop Weekend
- 15th February 2025 10:30 am - 16th February 2025 4:00 pm
- 10:30 am
- Gilbert Whites House
Gilbert Whites House
Gilbert White was aged 7 or 8 when the White family moved from the Vicarage on Selborne’s Plestor, to this house, called ‘The Wakes’ (named after the Wake family who had lived here previously). At that time, the property would have been no more than a ‘two up, two down’ but over subsequent years several extensions and additions have been made, creating the long, sizeable house you see today.
The rooms have been restored following descriptions in White’s own correspondence and include a chair he used at Oriel College, Oxford (loaned from the College), items of contemporary furniture, family portraits and bed hangings embroidered for him by his aunts.
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