The State Rooms

A most imposing room, the State Sitting Room was one of the original State rooms reserved for visiting royalty. The panelled walls are hung with 17th century Mortlake tapestries. Royal guests at Castle Ashby have included King James 1, by whom Lord Compton was created Earl of Northampton in 1618. Among the meritorious deeds mentioned in the Patent of his Earldom, which hangs framed at Castle Ashby, is that of "quelling an insurrection in Warwickshire without effusion of blood."