It is evident everywhere throughout Broadlands that great care and considerable expense has been taken to preserve the parkland setting, the house and its elegant decorations.

Lord Mountbatten paid tribute to his late wife's excellent arrangements of furnishings, fittings and picture hanging to suit the character of the 18th century house and this tradition has been continued by Lady Romsey.

The stable building, which now houses the Mountbatten Exhibition, is little changed from the time of William and Mary at the end of the 17th century when the old manor house of the St Barbe family stood on the site of the present Georgian house.

The 18th century ornamental dairy, now the Visitor Reception Centre and Gift Shop, stands at the end of a shady walk by the waterside, surrounded by trees drooping their boughs to the stream. It was built to enable the ladies of the house to participate in making cream and butter.

Today Broadlands remains one of England's most delightful country homes, a gem of mid-Georgian beauty