Chiswick House and Gardens

Chiswick House is now formally closed for 2025 in its usual English Heritage day-to-day incarnation. But this festive season the magnificent Neo-Palladium pile will open for holidays for the first time in a special incarnation – staged by trailblazing live entertainment company Underbelly – that aims to capture the opulent hubbub of a Georgian Christmas, in a presentation themed around the contemorary carol ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’. Basically it’ll be very Christmassy, and show the house off as a place for entertainment – as it was in the past when people lived there – and not just a dry historical exhibit. It’s suitable for all ages, and will be further pepped up with an eighteenth century-style Father Christmas’s Grotto.