Petworth Cottage Museum

About

Welcome to this Leconfield estate-worker's cottage once the home of Mrs Cummings, a seamstress at Petworth House. Furnished as in 1910 it has a ground floor scullery and sitting room, with a kettle boiling on the coal-fired range. Upstairs there is a sewing-room and a bedroom, and on the top floor an attic bedroom. The walled garden is filled with plants of the period.
There is no formal display. Everything has its particular function and illustrates Mary Cummings's lifestyle.
The stewards welcome visitors as if to their own home, and the friendly atmosphere is regularly remarked upon.

The Petworth Cottage Museum is now included in Sir Simon Jenkins' significant book "England's Thousand Best Houses" in which the author describes the cottage as "an immaculate portrayal of working-class life in a settled small town before the Great War". For an invitation to take a photographic tour of the Cottage Museum please go to our website.

The museum is open from Thursday 1st April to Saturday 30th October on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thurdays, Fridays & Saturdays from 2 to 4.30 p.m.

It is also open on Easter Sunday (24th April), Easter Monday (25th April),
May Bank Holiday (2nd May), Spring Bank Holdiay (30th May) & August Bank
Holiday (29th August).