Wallaton Hall is a beautiful Elizabethan palace, a country estate, which now stands in the heart of Nottingham city centre. Wallaton Hall was built between 1580 and 1588 by the architect Robert Smithson for Sir Francis Willoughby. The building is in the Elizabethan style with elements of the later King James period. Ancaster limestone was used for its construction, and some of the decorations and sculptures were imported from Italy. In addition to this, there is also French and Dutch influences.
The palace consists of a central building surrounded by four towers. At the end of the 18th century fire destroyed the interior decoration of the ground floor rooms, but fortunately did not fortunately it did not damage the load-bearing structures. The ground floor gallery contains Nottinghamshire's oldest 17th-century organ. The ceilings are decorated with beautiful and there are marvellous views across the park.
The building itself is now home to the Natural History Museum, while and visitors can also go downstairs and discover what the Tudor kitchen was like and savour the sights, sounds and smells. At the Museum of Nottingham Museum of Industry, the collection of old tractors attracts particular attention.
The park is home to European fallow deer and a herd of red deer.
