displays in the parlour, dining room, study, governess' room, scullery, kitchen and bedchambers are recreations of the 1830s era, utilising 19th-century furniture. the dining room contains stained glass windows with portraits of william shakespeare and john milton and a painting of the 1794 eruption of mount vesuvius, which are described in the novel "shirley". several rooms contain 18th-century hob grates or iron fire grates with integral ledges for heating food in pots or pans.