If you’ve crept up here from the family bedrooms on the Second Floor, you’ll have to keep yourself hidden. Here on the Third Floor, visitors are a rarity. It’s a place of running feet and occasional tantrums and, all too rarely, quiet industry. At one end of the floor, servants busy themselves in the Sewing Room, while the rest of the corridors are taken up by the world of the Quartermaine children: the Night and Day Nurseries; the Schoolroom; and their Governess’s Bedroom.
You can either choose to head back downstairs to the grander rooms on the Ground, First and Second Floors, or finish the tour of the Hall up in the Attics…
Here clothes are mended and darned, and last seasons’ styles are swiftly brought up to scratch
This is where the younger children sleep, with Nanny just a call away. There are a few books and dolls, but most toys remain next door
The little ones enjoy toys, games and stories in front of the fire, while the older ones tussle over board games or plunge into the dressing up box
Under the watchful eye of their governess, the children study basic academic subjects, sewing and foreign languages. At mealtimes this becomes the nursery dining room
A place for the hard-working governess to relax and gather a few personal treasures from her exotic and enigmatic past
Quartermaine Hall 