{"id":667,"date":"2011-10-08T13:21:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T13:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=667"},"modified":"2011-10-08T13:21:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T13:21:34","slug":"peckover-house-cambs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"Peckover House, Cambs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>National Trust.<\/em><br \/>\nPeckover House is a classic Georgian merchant\u2019s house, facing onto the River Nene which runs through Wisbech.  The owners, the Peckovers, were staunch Quakers, but ran a successful private bank. Inside the house, the panelled rooms have fine Georgian fireplaces and a wealth of elaborate woodwork and plasterwork by local craftsmen. Relics include a cabinet of curiousities. The spacious two-acre garden extends behind several other properties on the riverfront. Its size comes as something of a surprise &#8211; these days a whole housing estate could be crammed into it.  It is divided into a number of sections, mostly planted in a Victorian style, and including lawn, wilderness walk, orangery, glasshouses, climbing roses and flower beds.<br \/>\nAs Peckover House is now in the town, parking outside the house is time-restricted.  Apparently there is free parking  at Chapel Road, 273 yards away, but I parked outside the house and had to nip out mid-visit to move my car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Trust. Peckover House is a classic Georgian merchant\u2019s house, facing onto the River Nene which runs through Wisbech. The owners, the Peckovers, were staunch Quakers, but ran a successful private bank. Inside the house, the panelled rooms have fine Georgian fireplaces and a wealth of elaborate woodwork and plasterwork by local craftsmen. Relics include &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=667\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peckover House, Cambs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,5,3,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}