Christmas is fast approaching and so we decided to take another festive National Trust trip. After exploring Killerton and their fabulous Wind in the Willows theme last week, we made a welcome return to Knightshayes. It’s a lovely place to visit in Devon and isn’t far from Tiverton.
All Set for Christmas
Knightsyahes was all ready and set for the festive period – the house was decorated beautifully with stunningly adorned trees with plenty of lights and festive bits to look at. This year theme is based around a traditional family Christmas and there are plenty of displays filled with children’s toys from days gone by. This included various large dolls houses which so were so intricate and lovely to look at – each had its own story alongside it to tell you what was going on inside the house. There was also a full size railway track with trains chugging along on it which was placed on the snooker table. Nathan enjoyed playing with the trains for a bit – such a big kid!
All Lit Up
As dusk approaches the gardens take magical turn and are lit up with a multitude of colourful lights and the garden paths are lined by pretty little fairy lights to guide your way. We walked around just as it was starting to get dark so didn’t really get to see the full effect of the lights but i reckon it would be lovely sight to see. The house is open till 8pm at weekends so people can look around the house and gardens when they are fully lit up.
Hot Chocolate Treat
My sister kindly gave me a National Trust voucher for my birthday as she knows how much we enjoy going to the properties and thought we could treat ourselves whilst on our trips out. We made use of the voucher in the cafe and treated ourselves to a scrummy hot chocolate each and had a chocolate brownie to share – both were equally delicious! We sat outside in the covered marquee area and made use of the fur blankets for warmth!
You can read more about our previous visit to Knightshayes here, which has lots more details on the house and it’s history.
Have you ever been to Knightshayes? Enjoying any festive events over the coming days? Let me know below 🙂
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Such a beautiful place, never been to Knightshayes but your photos have made me want to go so bad.
It’s a lovely place to spend a Sunday afternoon 🙂
Oh my gosh, what an amazing place! I would love to explore this area. And that hot chocolate looks fabulous. Yum!
The hot choc was defo a highlight!!!
So stunning! I admire the architecture and true craftmanship in this home, and can totally see myself walking through in “awe” of my surroundings. Thank you for sharing!
So much history, hard work and beautifulness! Thanks for your comment 🙂
Absolutely friggin’ GORGEOUS! This season always just makes everything look and feel 10x more magical!
Hehe thank you! It was so festive!
Those houses are amazing looking. I love looking at Christmas decorations.
Me too! Makes you feel so warm and festive!
Oh the house looks incredible all lit up. Very magical. And the Christmas displays look lovely. I’ve never been to that part of the UK but if I do I’d love to visit there.
Wow! It looks magical! I love all the lights.
So magical! Glad you like the pictures 🙂
Merry Christmas, your pictures are beautiful I love the flash of colors
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Thank you, merry Christmas to you too, hope you’ve had a great time 🙁
What a gorgeous place! Love to visit some day! Great pics btw!
Thank you, it was such a good day our 🙂
Looks like a neat little place to visit for the holidays. So much more character than a mall santa claus!
Haha yes a few more festive decorations than that!
I do love the National Trust properties and I spent much of 2017 Autumn exploring the ones in Oxfordshire and Berkshire but not yet ventured to Devon. Kinghthayes looks amazing
Ah brilliant, I’m glad you hae enjoyed some NT properties this year – I have too! There’s lots in Devon to explore if you ever venture this way 🙂
I bet those lights look glorious at night – magical. I also throughly approve of the hot chocs and brownies!
They looked so effective at dusk I can’t only imagine they look even better when it’s properly dark! Hot choc is one of the best!
What a lovely place to spend time during holiday season! Would love to visit U.K. next year!
So lovely! Yes, come and visit!
I’ve never been before, but it looks so lovely and Christmassy! I love the dollhouses.
I looked at it as a magical castle with that lights on! the ambiance of the season really reflected well!
I would love to go to Knightsyahes. It would be an amazing way to kick off the holiday season.
It certainly worked for us!
what a cool place! all the decor are so festive! would surely want to see this!
Quite a sight!
Oo I could use one of those hot chocolates! I love the dollhouses too. This seems like such a fun activity for Christmastime. 🙂
It certainly was! The dolls houses were so special and the hot choc rather scrummy!
This place is incredible! Hope I could visit this place one day. The photos are also stunning!
Aw thank you! Such a great place to visit 🙂
I really love NT properties too – they are so magical at Xmas time! Sophie would love to see the trains & doll houses what a lovely idea to set those up x
Aw I’m glad you love them too! The dolls houses were so nice to look at and explore!
Such a beautiful place and I love the traditional decorations especially the Bannister garland. I’d love to have one in our home
What a gorgeous place to visit during the holidays! It’s just stunning with the lights on! That hot cocoa looks delicious, too.
The lights just make it look so cool – simple yet effective!
I am impressed how this is creatively decorated. You can really feel Christmas in there. Holidays are approaching and I can see you are ready.
It made me feel so festive and cosy!
The architecture of the Knightshayes building as well as the details within make this place interesting to visit. In the light of the history associated with the place the purple green and yellow lights reflected unto the Knightshayes building lends a sense of intrigue to this place.
Thanks, it certainly has a lot of history!
Wow now isn’t that place magical! How perfectly Christmasy as well! You guys looked like you had a wonderful time and always got to love a good hot chocolate 😉
We had such a good time thank you, so festive!
Love that table setting! This is my fave time of the yr! Love it.
So awesome isn’t it!
I’m obsessed with Christmas. This is such a beautiful place. I would love it here.
Hehe me too, it’s awesome!
How beautiful and festive! With a staircase like that, you just have to add garland all the way down!
Haha totally! I wish I had a staircase like that to decorate!
Ahh it looks lovely, so festive. Keep meaning to go to more national trust places. Hot chocolates look really good too!
They are so worth going to, especially if you like old houses and history. The gardens are normally lovely for a walk too
Sitting outside with blankets, enjoying good company, good scenery and a hot drink? Sounds just about perfect to me. 🙂
It pretty much was Rosey 😀
Oh Christmas is everywhere in this place and i like it! Looks homey and warming, and glad you visited again 🙂
I’m so glad we went back and visited as the Christmas decorations made it so special!
Ah so so lovely! And such a lovely narrative too!
So great, glad you enjoyed reading about it 🙂
No I have never been to Knightshayes but with your post I want to bring my family there now! What an experience to be able to spend Christmas there! Thanks for sharing!
Aww I’m sure you and your family would love it!
THIS IS Absolutely GORGEOUS! ThE HOLIDAYS MAKES EVERYTHING. so very magical!
I totally agree, simply
Magical!
Beautiful pictures. I just love the holidays!!!
Thank you, me too!!
I don’t know that we have any places like this in the states. This does look very beautiful. And I am sure my daughter would also love playing with the trains. The hot cocoa looked marvelous.
National trust places are well loved here in the UK. The hot chocolate was one of the best!
Dave would love that post box. Another good looking hot choc-if only one hot choc was included with entry to each NT.
The post box was cool, letters to Father Christmas only so think Dave might be a bit too old for that! I wish it was included – feel I should get it the amount of times I visit!