The Mayor’s Parlour offers up to six people the unique chance to experience living in spaces conceived by architect and designer William Burges as privy rooms fit for a medieval lord.
Live the High Victorian dream
The Mayor’s Parlour, used as the mayor’s private office, as well as for meetings and robing, is now the Landmark Trust dining room, centred around the original council table and chairs. The equally colourful Magistrates’ Retiring Room has become the kitchen.
Burges’s full decorative schemes have been recreated in the main rooms, which still retains many of their original fittings. A private staircase leads to three bedrooms and bathrooms on the floor above, formerly the Minute Rooms where clerks once kept the town’s records.
This is a unique chance to experience living in rooms designed by the architectural master of the High Victorian period and a must for anyone captivated by the Gothic Revival – or simply wanting to explore the wonders of Dover Castle and its White Cliffs.
The Mayor's Parlour has its own access from the street and is at the opposite end of the building from the public areas.
For more information and to book, visit The Landmark Trust's website.