Photo: Firle Place by Martin John Bishop, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
About this place
Firle Place, in East Sussex, has been home to the Gage family since the late fifteenth century.
The house sits at the foot of the South Downs, near the village of Firle, and holds an important collection of Old Master paintings and Sèvres porcelain.
Much of what visitors see today dates from an eighteenth-century remodelling in the Georgian style, carried out over several decades under the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Gage, giving the house the character of a classical French château in Caen stone.
General Thomas Gage, the British commander-in-chief at the outbreak of the American War of Independence, was born here.
Plan your visit
Open May to October, Sundays to Wednesdays; check official website for current dates and tour times.