Nuffield Place

Gill and I decided to practice for retirement and picked  couple of places from the National Trust guidebook we had not been to previously - the weather looked better to the South so we chose Nuffield Place and Greys Court - both about an hour away and not far from Henley on Thames.  

Nuffiled Place (main Blip) was William Morris's house (the car maker, not the artist) which he and his wife had built in the 1930s.  They had no children and decided to use their great wealth on a variety of philanthropic causes.  The house itself is a fascinating glimpse into the 1930s,  not furnished as one might expect for a multi millionaire, and worth a visit.  The Wolsley car he was given by the workforce at Cowley (extra) is in a rather splendid little garage.   Greys Court is similar in that it's current state is a function of the 1930s, (and on up into the 1950s) but the family lived a much more artistic (musical) lifestyle and definitely didn't have anything like Morris's small wardrobe sized workshop in a bedroom.