" Within the Richmond city limits H -- tall as a medieval English building. That was found in Lancashire back in the 1920s. By wealthy tobacco air named Thomas C Williams junior. His plan back then was to dismantle it and bring it back home and redirected kind of is the anchor of a new real estate development that he wanted to put up on his family farm. He saw a stream of rebuilding H croft as his own private family home however he died and 29 and the stock market crash kind of put an end to the development plans however it is a beautiful house museum well worth the visit and we're gonna visit with. It's executive director Richard Moxley them."

" Britain are wicket gate is that the offensive. Type of gate to prevent people from just entering without being welcome. You have to that you stop drop down to get through this. And if you are somebody the only authority perhaps that person when it's gotten ahead."

" That is very clever in which it refers to the shape back at it and playing. Croquet that's correct that's that's. Well this is a spectacular place that tell us a little bit about what we're looking at here."

" Well what you're looking at -- one of the most decorative facade of the house here ha it's wonderful black and white work. What's it called it's also called an England that I've -- referring to that bird that black and white bird -- in England. Easy decorative quokka -- there and the diaper up above."

" Then in the gable end that's called directory that's correct OK now. What's the point of all this decoration as somebody basically showing off."

" That's just what they're doing they're showing off their wealth with their prestige in front of all the world here. To be -- something like this require a lot of money."

" Because it was so labor intensive to create to be sure I mean indeed what we're looking at is the surface of it but it's three dimensional they're really -- chambers that are. Cut precisely like that that's right to create those isn't -- post and beam construction like a barn are very decorative on the house is from the late fifteen hundreds that's correct. Now what about the windows that they're so beautiful that must be a twenty -- expansive but it is."

" Look at this wonderful when he -- expansive leaded glass windows we have photos -- isn't this window came over all in one piece with the glass. Play without breaking one pane of glass --"

" Let's in the 1920s -- that Iraq created the whole thing that's right and hoisted into into the hold of greater and brought it all the way home to Virginia. An exquisite thing that wonderful now. The interior of the house is set up primarily as a museum these days restaurant enormous collection of some very priceless. Elizabethan and Jack could be in furnishings I understand that there's a bed here is that. They'd love to have back home in England."

" Well that's right we have a wonderful painted bed from the late sixteenth century with the original paint on the -- we've had it analyzed in fact there's a number of coats of paint -- but at the bottom is that original sixteenth century paint."

" Would that have been very out of the ordinary to have decorated colored poly -- bit like that."

" It is it is very unusual if you examples in the world today it would especially with their original paint mostly -- fear that a plane just. Dark -- and there's also a collection of tapestries there is we have a wonderful collection of tapestries -- one of the most prominent ones that you see in our great hall is the so called more like -- more like factories and that. Tapestry -- the wolf hunt. You can see in that tapestry the wonderful action. Of the dogs chasing the world and he hunter about the spear. That dog and Kelly in the and a wonderful colors come out and that after the reds in the room. Probably the most comfortable and enjoyable room would have been -- library. Library is an expansive. Room probably about. Thirty by fifty feet in fact you can see where we're standing. The extent of the library here standing on the entire length of the."

" This week this -- all -- one room -- all one room wonderful library richly paneled inside. The dominating feature of that room as the so called Everett factory table."

" About sixteen feet long the magnificent in laid."

" Object with carved -- that it -- and it's courses before so thousands of books. That's right wonderful books that promise to in -- collected."

" And inherited from his father and scrap."

" Richard can we take a quick look at some of the garden sure let's take a look."

" But walking down -- very formal LAU Little -- linens are lined streets you can feel they have not rather grotesque shape in the the result of this hollered at. Formal pruning."

" Now we're here in April and leaked out yet but the objective is to create squares are geometric shape that's right it'll result you know well lush green canopy. In the summer now -- landscape architect Charles Gillette a very prominent. Landscape architect in Richmond and you -- things create a masterpiece here. This is fabulous. Now what was his inspiration for the design of this garden. Inspired by the pond garden at Hampton court that was Henry the eighth palatial garden at Henry the eighth -- how many tulip bulbs. We plant 5002. The bulbs in here is there a plan in terms of the colors and how you mix them up sure the gardener takes great pains to combine one next the other. And the blooming sequence as well he's got those old. An old colors scale here is that you're looking at here for everybody. I love these stronger colored ones season. Which -- parrot tulips into the black parents and help her little black but they're buried strike and yet when -- 5000 bulbs wow that's a lot of work and then you pull them out right in that area what annuals and so that's right a few weeks will be pulling a lot replaying this that."

" We have an Elizabethan herb garden filled with herbs of the period style of take a look at that."

" This is quite some gate. Now wonderful wrought iron work. Now this is a very orderly spot. It is they we have a series of gardens here very formal -- garden vegetables pattern here herbs. And decorative designs but complete bilateral symmetry everywhere you look that's right you'll think this garden."

" Here is that rare reflection of itself. Out what about the plant collection here what we have a lot of different plants in this garden. Features John for desk and the younger they English botanist who came here to Virginia in the 1630s to collect plants. And take them back to England today we celebrate the plants that he collected not only in Virginia."

" But central and South America well OK this is a collection of different species of plants so it's not just herbs good medicinal plant flowers. It doesn't mixture of a lot of different types of plants and how -- enjoyed by the English during the sixteen parents pilots symmetrical gardens does it right up -- it's a little bit early ports deal isn't it it is it has a -- ago but you can see Randy -- Accurate garden it is that is the garden of collection. Collector."

" And it's a garden room that's appropriate to the estate because again it's from the sixteenth -- seventeenth -- us all the things on it -- And what's this than usual orange kind of upside down plant."

" That's called the fertile area -- family -- native to Persia but to basket knew about that plan could collect."

" It's not a fragrance that is now it is it has a unique skunk like smell it. You don't want to plant to me and I now -- again this garden room features of view of the river wonderful way to end the to a."