"Knole is the most magnificent old house I ever saw. The cluster of Towers you see from Tunbridge road can give you no idea of what it is, court after court, with Towers, turrets, galleries, colonnades, corridors and winding staircases, great halls and chapels, green houses, orangeries, stables, courts and outhouses all running into out of, right and left, and away from each other, covering five acres and all built of old grey stone."