Interior
Porch has canted corners, single light stained glass armorial windows, 2 pointed niches, and encaustic tiles to floor. Tudor traceried half-glazed double doors into cross-passage. Passage has plain black and white tile floor and boarded ceiling, double Tudor doors at end to service staircase and service corridor running W with 22 bells on corridor wall. Double Tudor doors on right of cross-passage, into refectory. Refectory was the great hall, ceiled at second floor level, but now with C20 suspended ceiling. (The great hall had a plain ceiling of whitewashed beams replaced in 1836 by panelled oak ceiling, and there was also a musicians' gallery, but all said to have been removed). Painted grained fielded panelling to walls, and big blocked fireplace with thin octagonal shafts, cornice with square rosettes and 3-panel neo-Jacobean overmantel with 4 tapering strapwork piers, carved cartouches in 2 outer panels and heavily ornamented frieze. Tudor entrance doors have carved spandrels. Double Tudor doors at lower end into drawing room, also Tudor doorway to left into dining-room passage, and right into entrance hall, with carved spandrels and double doors.
Drawing room beyond refectory has French rococo style decoration though the underlying room has Tudor to Jacobean style main elements. Tudor arch from refectory with double doors, applied rococo ornament. Marble C18 French fireplace on left wall with consoles at diagonal angles, cast-iron firebasket and grate. Rococo framing to wall panels, most ornate to door to entrance hall opposite, which is set in Tudor-arched recess. Rococo applied ornament to spandrel panels, and within recess around door and to door itself (plain 6-panel to other side). Big end-wall bay window with panelled shutters and ornate applied rococo ornament including openwork framing to rectangular opening, mouldings to soffit within and extremely elaborate openwork pelmet. Plaster ceiling in panels outlined by neo-Jacobean moulded bands, with openwork centre pendant around moulded rose.
Entrance hall has oval ceiling panel in Jacobean style, two doors to left, one in deep reveal, and one to right in deep reveal. Right wall has full-height carved wood fireplace surround in C18 style, possibly altered early C18. Fluted pilasters, cornice with scrollwork and shell, and in the panel framed by the pilasters, a big carved roundel with stag's head and festooned drapes. Minimal bolection-moulded fireplace surround, to C20 radiator. Two plastered chamfered Tudor arches at end, the left one connecting to a link to C20 addition with Tudor door with carved spandrels, the right one opens into stair hall Door on right of fireplace gives onto second drawing room which has Jacobean-style ceiling with lozenge panels and winged cherub heads, strapwork in cornice, Tudor-style niches in canted angles and Tudor-style fireplace with quatrefoil detached shafts and fine cast-iron Gothic fire-basket. Two 6-panel doors.
Stair hall has big open well stair up 3 floors in 6 flights with 2 landings, neo-Jacobean possibly incorporating original elements. Big carved square newels with finials and pendants, carved closed string, heavy turned balusters, and moulded rails. Panelled undersides, matching dado panelling. Six-panel door to right to 1930s marble-lined bathroom, marble basin surrounds. Two long windows with transoms and 4 stained glass windows with re-used glass, one with Charlemagne, second with shield, third possibly C17 royal arms lions of England and lilies of France, fourth with crowned arms and R below.
From refectory doorway to left narrows within reveal to plain 6-panel door to passage running E. Passage has on left (N) a 6-panel door into former serving-room with plain Tudor-arched fireplace, half-glazed door to service area and 6-panel door to cupboard. Bank of cupboards around door; and a Tudor arch to exterior (now an internal courtyard). On right (S) is 6-panel door in panelled reveal into dining room.
Dining-room is Tudor-style but the carving more mid C19 with fine Gothic detail to panelled doors and brass door-fittings. Walls are panelled to level of door heads, in 3 tiers with square quatrefoils to middle panels, upper panels have cusped heads. Heavy corbelled cornices with fretwork cresting and finials over each door. One door in centre of entry wall, 2 on left end wall flanking massive Tudor-arched sideboard recess with carved spandrels and panelled reveals. Upper end has painted stone Tudor fireplace with pierced spandrels, half-ocatgonal piers, and cusped lattice frieze. Inner fireplace frame with ogee shoulders and fine Gothic cast-iron fire-basket. Overmantel has panelled back under shallow cove on chamfered posts, with Tudor arch, carved spandrels, cresting and finials. Rectangular frame to French window of 4 lights with top lights and shutters in equal-sized panel each side. Ceiling in panels the ribs on thin pierced cusped brackets. Deep panelled timber frieze below ceiling, with thin openwork brackets to ribbed and panelled ceiling, the main panels with carved bosses to intersections. Three big square panels down centre , two with eight-pointed star ribbing and centre one with square panels and massive centre octagonal panelled pendant with ball. Sides have six cusped smaller panels with armorial shields. Rectangular French window with top-lights, large shutters each side
First floor landing has two 6-panel doors, one in deep reveal to main bedroom, other to left to marble-lined 1930s bathroom. Main bedroom (St Peters) in crosswing has Jacobean-style plaster ceiling with flat ribs centre rose and applied floral decoration. Scrolled decoration to cornice. Tudor-style fireplace. A Tudor arch from landing leads onto smaller landing with 2 6-panel doors to bedrooms, St Josephs and St Annes, St Josephs with neo-Jacobean ceiling rose, cornice and plain Tudor fireplace. On stair wall between first and second floors is William Etty's very large painting of St Joan of Arc dedicating herself to France, exhibited at the Royal Academy 1847 and purchased for £2,500.
Attic floor has two 6-panel doors, marble-lined 1930s bathroom.