beyond the polished floors and the three reception rooms , below the wide staircase leading to eight bedrooms and their eight adjoining en suites , past the downstairs cloakroom , grand dining room , and very big country style kitchen where grandpa bilson was preparing dinner , drinking wine , and singing in a funny language , lay an undulating outside land of green pastures , bordering forests , and free-range farm animals all strangely scarred with the odd divot taken out from various parts of their hides .