After enjoying my National Trust membership in 2023, I decided I would rejoin the Trust for 2025.
I have been to Clevedon Court a number of times over the years. It’s only open for six months of the year and only a few times a week.
Clevedon Court
Medieval manor house and 18th-century terraced garden with wide views of the Mendip Hills. Clevedon Court is an outstanding 14th-century manor house. Purchased by Abraham Elton in 1709, this remarkable survivor from the medieval period has been the ancestral home of the Elton family ever since.
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I enjoyed my visit to the house and had some interesting conversations with the volunteers.
One interesting aspect of the house was that the Victorian facade which was added in the 1880s was removed in the early 1950s by the National Trust.
When the National Trust agreed to take on the house, the Victorian west wing (but not its Elizabethan south front) were demolished as were a plethora of minor 18th- and 19th-century buildings at the rear.
The Elton family still go and stay there, so though some rooms are open to the public, there are some parts of the house which are private.
The gardens are lovely and well worth walking around.