The drawing-room has four magnificent niches, and a noble window with a lofty pointed arch and tracery of rich and beautiful forms, adorned with stained glass. It is placed at the end opposite the entrance, and commands a fine prospect, the inlet of the Dee forming a conspicuous object in the landscape. The pattern of the ceiling, which is decorated with compartments numerously subdivided and intersected, is formed in four divisions issuing from clustered pillars with foliated capitals, and united in the centre to an hexagonal frame, elaborately reticulated, from which issues a pendant of foliage sustaining a superb chandelier of crystal. The number and variety of the carved knots and foliage add to the beauty of the ceiling; but the decorations that increase its effect, and are indeed its most prominent attractions, are the shields on which the heraldic achievements of the various branches of the Grosvenor family are emblazoned. The pale hue of the ceiling, the gorgeous decorations in the centre, and the rich glow of the crimson velvet with which the walls of this noble apartment are covered, all combine to render it a scene of unsurpassed magnificence. Corresponding in costly embellishment with its architecture is the furniture, of blue satin, fringed with yellow silk, crimson velvet, and damask satin. Over the chimney-piece, which is carved in statuary marble, is a lofty mirror in an arched frame, sufficiently broad to admit a pattern of tracery, on the compartments of which crimson velvet is introduced with happy effect. This splendid apartment contains the following pictures:—Judith with the head of Holofernes, _Guercino_—Reuben showing to Jacob the bloody garment of his son Joseph, also by _Guercino_—Antiochus and Stratonice, _Pietro de Cortona_—Christ and the Woman of Samaria, _Mignard_—Jacob blessing Ephraim and Manasseh, _West_—Elijah raising the Widow’s Son, also by _West_.