Heritage Open Day: Visit Nettlecombe Court with the Field Studies Council. Explore its historic ground floor rooms, featuring plaster ceilings and fine period architecture from the 1600s-1800s. A rare opportunity for the public to visit a privately run building. Visit Nettlecombe Court with Field Studies Council and explore two centuries of extraordinary plasterwork and architecture. Visitors will have rare access to the magnificent Great Hall, where Jacobean strapwork ceilings and pendants evoke the grandeur of the early seventeenth century. In the dining parlour and its chamber above, admire an exquisite dated overmantel of 1641, marking the Trevelyan–Strode marriage.