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27 Tadcaster Road, Dringhouses, York, North Yorkshire YO24 1GG01904 771930

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Enjoy the 1930's High Life at York's Goddards

by Slug

Huddersfield, United Kingdom

November 6, 2012

Best of IgoUgo As we wandered from the York Holiday Inn near the race course a couple of miles out of York city centre, we passed an interesting looking Arts and Craft Movement house, Goddards and now run by the National Trust. On Sunday early in November, we ...Read more As we wandered from the York Holiday Inn near the race course a couple of miles out of York city centre, we passed an interesting looking Arts and Craft Movement house, Goddards and now run by the National Trust.

On Sunday early in November, we decided to visit the house before returning home. As it happens the house is shut in the winter and so we had the house almost to ourselves on its final day of opening.

Goddards was built for the family of Noel Terry who was the chairman of the Terry's Chocolate Empire and the chocolate used to be made in a huge factory on the other side of the race course. Like many things British, it has now been bought out by a foreign company and manufactured elsewhere.

The entrance to the house was £5 per person, and for the hour we spent there that felt about right. Inside, you can enter 7 of the rooms and find out something of the Terry Family, the history of Terry's (they used to make a chocolate apple as well as a chocolate orange) and wander round the beautifully landscaped gardens.

The house is decorated in 1930’s style with furnishings brought in to replicate the heyday of the house. Unusually, you can sit on the furniture and read some of the booklets about the rooms furniture or history of the family if you wish.

The family actually aren't that exciting; Mr Terry was your average millionaire businessman and his family average upper class folk from the 1930s; still the opportunity to look round the beautiful house was good, and I particularly liked the detail in the wood carving in the rooms, and the fixtures and fittings such as the door handles, window catches and the like.

Outside is the joy of the house; its garden. I was surprised how they made such good use of the space with a number of winding paths over the acre of land which overlooks the race course. There were a lot of different feels to the garden and it included a wild woodland area, a wetland area and a formal lawn and terrace. I really enjoyed this part, although visiting in November wasn't the best with the cold wind biting.

Back inside, we had chance to visit the little tearoom with its fantastic and moist home cooked carrot cake and cup of tea. Although of course food and drink is extra, we felt it added to our enjoyment of Goddards and again the tearoom was again furnished in 1930s style.

While Goddards isn't one of those must see places, we found it very interesting to poke around (as lovers of arts and craft styling) and that beautiful garden was well worth a visit.
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