The home of the Sackville-Wests:

The house is now in the care of the National Trust; however, the Trust only owns the house and about 43 acres (170,000 m2) of the park. Considerably more than half the house is still home to the Sackville-Wests. Lord Sackville and his family still own the gardens and the rest of the surrounding estate. As a walled garden, Knole’s is very large, at 26 acres (30 including the ‘footprint’ of the house),[citation needed] and indeed is large enough to have the very unusual — and essentially mediaeval — feature of a smaller walled garden inside itself. It contains many other features from earlier ages which have been wiped away in most country-house gardens: like the house, the garden has not been assiduously kept up-to-date with changing fashions over the centuries. These include clair-voies, a patte d’oie and even some bosquet hedges.

‘Sissinghurst and and St Loup are my spiritual homes,’ she later wrote. ‘and of course Knole, which is denied me for ever, through “a technical fault over which we have no control”, as they say on the radio.’

Although the house is in the care of the National Trust a large part of it is still lived in by the Sackville-Wests:

Today, the house is in the care of the National Trust; however, the Trust only owns the house and about 43 acres of the park. Considerably more than half the house is still home to the Sackville-Wests. Lord Sackville and his family still own the gardens and the rest of the surrounding estate. Knole’s garden is probably the largest private walled garden in Britain at 26 acres (30 including the ‘footprint’ of the house), and indeed is large enough to have the very unusual (essentially mediaeval) feature of a smaller walled garden inside itself. Knole Park is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and the park hosts the annual Knole Run, a prestigious schools cross-country race.

Unfortunately on the day I visited I wasn’t able to explore the grounds because it started to pour down with rain which was a shame. I suppose that gives me a good excuse to go back though.