Tyntesfield is a Victorian Gothic Revival mansion near Wraxall, about 18 miles from Bath, run by the National Trust. Adult admission is £21.00 (£23.10 with Gift Aid), and you should allow the best part of a day to see the house and even a fraction of its 540 acres of garden, parkland and woodland.
What is Tyntesfield
Tyntesfield began as a plain Regency house called Tyntes Place. William Gibbs, whose family fortune came from importing guano fertiliser, bought it in 1843 and spent the following decades remodelling it into the ornate Gothic Revival house that stands today. Each of the next three generations of the Gibbs family added to it, including a chapel built in 1873 by the architect Arthur Blomfield, modelled on the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. The house passed to the National Trust in 2002 and now holds more than 72,000 objects collected by the family, from paintings and furniture to ice skates and picnic sets.
It is a different property from Dyrham Park, the National Trust house on the other side of Bath. Dyrham is a late 17th-century baroque mansion; Tyntesfield is a 19th-century Gothic Revival one, and the two make quite different day trips. If you are weighing them up, see our guide to Dyrham Park prices and getting there for comparison.
Getting there from Bath
By car, Tyntesfield is around 18 miles from Bath, generally 35 to 45 minutes depending on traffic through the Bristol ring road. The postcode is BS48 1PA, and the car park is signposted from the A38 and B3128.
There is no direct bus from Bath to Tyntesfield, but a public transport route does exist if you are prepared to change in Bristol. Take a train from Bath Spa to Bristol Temple Meads, then either walk around 20 minutes to Bristol Bus Station or catch a local bus to The Centre. From there, First Bus services X6 or X9 run every 25 minutes or so to Tyntesfield, with the journey taking about 25 minutes. Get off at the Tyntesfield stop on the X6 and it is a half-mile walk up the drive to the Home Farm visitor reception; on the X9, the driver can drop you near Wraxall Lodge for a similar walk along a signed footpath. The X9 also runs from Nailsea. It is a longer trip than driving, so budget most of the morning to arrive by car-free means.
If you are combining this trip with a stop in Bristol itself, our guide to Bristol as a day trip from Bath covers what else is worth doing there, since you will already be passing through on the train.
Admission and opening times
Whole-site entry from 1 March 2026 is £21.00 for an adult without Gift Aid, or £23.10 with it. A child ticket (ages 5 to 17, under-5s free) is £10.50, a family ticket for two adults and up to three children is £52.50, and a one-adult family ticket is £31.50. National Trust members visit free. Only groups of 15 or more need to pre-book.
Parking costs £3 per vehicle per day in winter (November to March) and £5 in summer (April to October), paid via the JustPark app, a payment machine, or at the Welcome Building. Members do not pay for parking.
Opening hours vary through the year. In late summer 2026, for example, the house was open 10.30am to 3.30pm and the wider estate 10am to 6pm, with the shop, cafés and second-hand bookshop keeping slightly different hours again. Because these change seasonally, check the current calendar on the National Trust's Tyntesfield page before you set off.
| Ticket type | Price (Gift Aid) | Price (standard) |
|---|---|---|
| Adult (18+) | £23.10 | £21.00 |
| Child (5-17) | £11.60 | £10.50 |
| Family (2 adults, up to 3 children) | £57.80 | £52.50 |
| One adult family | £34.70 | £31.50 |
What is worth seeing
The house tour takes you through the Cloister, an intensely Gothic entrance hall with vaulted stone ceilings, into rooms including the Library, Mr Gibbs's private study, and the Dining Room with its oak panelling and carved family motto. The Hall rises 43 feet and was the social centre of the household. Upstairs, family bedrooms and servants' quarters show the contrast between the two halves of life at Tyntesfield.
Outside, the garden has been kept largely as it was around 1900: formal terraces below the house, a working Kitchen Garden, a restored Rose Garden, and a historic Orangery that is at its best with spring bulbs. Beyond the garden, the wider estate includes Plantation Wood and the semi-natural ancient woodland of Truckle Wood, Sidelands and Wraxall Woods, with mature beech, oak and sweet chestnut. There are also three play areas for children, including a den-building trail. Dogs are welcome on short leads across most of the estate, though not in the Kitchen Garden or the house.
How long to allow
Give yourself at least three hours if you want to do the house tour and walk part of the garden. If you plan to explore further into the woodland or let children loose in the play areas, treat it as a half-day trip or longer. The estate is large enough that most visitors do not cover all of it in one visit.
Planning your visit
The house is roughly a kilometre from the car park, and the paths involve a steep incline, so wear proper shoes. A mobility shuttle and trampers are available for visitors who cannot manage the walk or stairs, and there is a photograph album of the upper floors for anyone who cannot use them. For other ideas within reach of Bath, our day trips from Bath guide rounds up the main options, from stately homes to gorges and cities.