The site also has a tea room, gift shop, second-hand bookshop and printing press.

John Sutton Nettlefold and his wife Margaret (née Chamberlain) commissioned Winterbourne in 1903 as a family home.

[1] They engaged local architect Joseph Lancaster Ball to design and build the house, which was finished in 1904.

In 1917, John moved away because of ill health, and two years later Margaret sold Winterbourne to the Wheelock family.

The Wheelocks stayed at Winterbourne with their nine children until 1925, when local businessman John Nicolson bought the house.

Mediaeval influences can be seen in the internal plasterwork, designed by local craftsman George Bankart, and the window furniture supplied by Henry Hope & Sons Ltd.

The rooms have been decorated in Arts and Crafts style using William Morris design wallpapers and period furniture.

The lean-to glasshouse in the walled garden is also original, as is the pleached lime walk (recently replanted).

Visitors to Winterbourne also enjoy access to Edgbaston Pool, a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

The planting follows Arts and Crafts principles, with colour-themed borders influenced by Gertrude Jekyll.