Wray in the rain

Chucked down with rain this morning, so we went to Wray castle, an imposing Victorian Gothic Castle built by James Dawson a wealthy Liverpudlian surgeon, and his wife who had inherited her family fortune from her father’s gin, engineering and colonial sugar refinery businesses. 
Slavery then.
Beatrix Potter , founder of the National Trust  used to go there for holidays with her parents and brother.
I liked this tile pattern in the entrance. It is not original, that having been burned in a fire caused by an oil burner in an attempt to warm the place up. 
The sun is shining this afternoon.