Rhodes spent his days exploring the Victorian "new" castle, going through the archives and studying the manor's many treasures and curios, such as the mounted hyena heads on the walls and bottles that had spent centuries in the moat.
Hän vietti päivät tutkien viktoriaanista ”uutta” linnaa, arkistoja, aarteita ja harvinaisuuksia, kuten seinille ripustettuja hyeenanpäitä ja vuosisatoja vallihaudassa olleita pulloja.