There are large hooks on the hall walls that run from the first floor to the top of the house and we can’t work out what they’re for. We’ve considered family portraits (too low), lanterns (too many – and no hooks on the ground floor), tapestries (wrong place) and the previous owners can’t tell us either. They’ve been put in quite roughly so we don’t think they were part of the original Georgian interior. We’ve been told that the army used the house in The Second World War so maybe they were put there to string up light bulbs powered by a generator…
It’s a puzzle and everyone who comes to stay asks about them.