Owners Chris and Xanthe Morgan have replaced their popular high tea at the historic home with a high-tea-in-a-box which will make its debut this Easter Sunday.

"It was Xanthe's idea," Mr Morgan said. "She said why don't we put high tea into a box and deliver it or let people come and pick it up.

"So she constructed all of the usual hand-made elements that we would normally serve at high tea and we worked out a way of packaging them."

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Those hand-made elements will be created from dawn this Easter Sunday.

"It's been a really pleasant thing to do," Mr Morgan said. "It's another example of how you can adapt the services and products you have to meet the conditions of the time."

The Morgans took 20 orders within an hour of putting an item about the high tea boxes on Facebook and will continue taking orders (unless the boxes book out) until noon on Saturday.

"We're designing a suite of similar products," Mr Morgan said. "In May, we'll launch picnics-in-a-box, and in winter, we'll do Sunday-roast-lunch-in-a-box."

He said businesses needed to be able to think laterally at the moment.

Visit the Abercrombie House website for more information.