Plasterwork flower motif of the window recess in the Rotunda, one of Capability Brown's "eye-catchers" built 1754-7 at Croome Court, Croome Park, Worcestershire

Marquetry panel from the Cabinet in the Brown Drawing Room at Blickling Hall

Detail of Brussels tapestry showing border pattern of flowers and fruit, part of seven mid-C17th tapestries woven in wool and silk depicting boar and stag hunts, in the Hall at Upton House

Back-lit view of the Bull's Eye window at Red House showing the William Morris motto 'Si Je Puis' (If I Can)

Replicas of finds from the Sutton Hoo Saxon burial site - richly decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet of war

Cannon balls, lead shot and medieval arrow found at Corfe Castle Estate

George William henry Vernon, 7th Baron, aged 4 in 1858 holding a hola hoop at Sudbury Hall

Close up of a tulipa 'Ballerina' in the garden at Sissinghurst Castle Garden, taken in April

The painted plaster goat by J.M.Rysbrack

Fallow deer (Dama dama) bucks locking antlers during the rut in autumn, in the magnificent 700-acre deer park at Petworth House, West Sussex

The black silk damask robe used by Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Bartolozzi Room at Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire, home of prime minister Benjamin Disraeli between 1848 and 1881

Coloured shield of the royal coat of arms of Henry VIII on the wall of Dragon, at Snowshill Manor