National Trust - Hatchlands Park

Hatchlands Park is a red-brick country house with surrounding gardens in East Clandon, Surrey. Lord Rendel bought Hatchlands Park from the Sumner family in 1888, he made many changes to the house and gardens and his family continued to live here until the late 1950s. It’s now owned by National Trust. There are couple of cafes and a second-hand bookshop. Few small attractions for kids. There was enough parking space. Entry and parking is free for the national trust members. I feel in summers this parking space may not be enough and I did not notice any overflow car parking spaces around. Please see my pictures for the rates, map and for an idea on what to expect.

The most impressive part of visiting Hatchlands is the collection of instruments in the house. Mostly pianos and related keyboard instruments. For an extra £2.00 you can get an audio guide with recordings of many of these instruments.
On the day we were there, a lot of repairs were being done inside and out. Refreshments in the coffee shop was not really pleasant with all the noise from the workers' tools. One part of the building is also covered in scaffolding, so not a great time to get good photographs of the house. Hopefully we will be able to come back when all the repairs are completed.
There are lots of walking paths around the place, and some picnic sites.

It's a lovely place to walk around,on a nice day. Also managed to look inside the beautiful house that's situated in the grounds, which had very high interesting seilings and lots of different pianos.
No photos were aloud to be taken of inside the house.

Many precious pianos and painting in the house. Staffs are very friendly and helpful, always ready to provide detailed information about the house. Parking is not a problem even in weekends. It’s free, if you are a national trust member.

Nice stately home in the middle of very nice parkland... This is the general theme of many a National Trust place... It's a good formula... What's different here though: well inside the house are many many piano's. The house is still lived in, but you can walk around much of the ground floor, with some beautifully ornate ceilings. The parkland is vast for a good several mile walk, rewarded with coffee and cake at the higher end of NT pricing!

Despite the name there is a house to visit, with an impressive collection of pianos and organs. One of the oldest is from 1580, about a 100 years before Bach was born. There is one which belonged to Chopin and one used by Mozart, and many more. You can't play the pianos, but you might get lucky to play one of the organs. The history of the house and the collection is also interesting and the staff very helpful. There is a cafe, book shop and toilets, and if you have time then walks around the countryside.

Beautiful area for walking. Clean air. Quiet. Would have been 5 stars except that the house is closed on Saturdays and neither the website or Google stated this. Would have come Sunday if we'd've known.

We really enjoyed our winter walk trail in Hatchlands park. A beautiful place with so much to explore. The house had scaffoldings but that didn’t stop anyone from entering and enjoying the musical and art displays. Kids enjoyed the Christmas trail, hot chocolate and sausage rolls from the cafe. Excellent kids friendly place.