Your Day at Harewood

Harewood House

Home to the Lascelles family for more than 200 years, the House is still lived in by the present Earl and Countess of Harewood. The 2010 exhibitions season at Harewood will celebrate the 21st birthday of the Terrace Gallery and over 250 years of innovation.

On the State Floor you will see exquisite interiors designed for the House by Scottish designer Robert Adam alongside furniture by his contemporary Thomas Chippendale who was born in nearby Otley. For those with an interest in art, Harewood has a collection ranging from Italian Renaissance masterpieces by such artists as Veronese, Titian, Bellini and El Greco through Turner watercolours and portraits by Joshua Reynolds to works by Picasso and Epstein.

In the newly re-displayed Below Stairs Experience you are taken back to Victorian and Edwardian days in the restored Old Kitchen, Servants Hall and Still Room, discovering how the servants lived, worked and serviced this great Yorkshire Country House.

Lord Harewood’s mother, HRH Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, lived at Harewood from 1930 to 1965 so don’t miss the rooms dedicated to her life here, including her wedding dress and bouquet along with family photograph albums for you to browse through.

The Gardens and Grounds

A pleasure throughout the year!  Drifts of daffodils in the West Garden and woodland areas in the Spring; the heady scent of hyacinths on the Parterre in the Summer; flowering trees and shrubs in the Himalayan Garden in Spring and early Summer; beautiful herbaceous borders on the Terrace and lush sub tropical Archery border in Summer and Autumn. And Harewood’s extensive grounds, all set in a Capability Brown landscape are perfect for relaxing walks where you likely to see and hear a variety of bird life including our famous red kites.

Private tours led by the Gardening Team are available - £4 per person, pre-booking required. For a tour and talk by our Head Gardener Trevor Nicholson.

FREE Garden 'Talk and Walk' – on Thursdays at 1pm on The Terrace; at 2pm in The Himalayan Garden and 3pm from June onwards in the Walled Garden.