Ham house

Discover the story of the Duchess of Lauderdale, who transformed Ham House into one of the grandest Stuart houses in England.

Ham House

Ham House, just up the Thames from Richmond Hill, is England's most complete and original 17th century manor houses. It's also the spookiest to visit.

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The Great Hall looking towards the Great Staircase and above is the The Hall Gallery or Round Room which was the Great Dining Room until the floor was pierced sometime between 1698 and 1728. The portraits by John Vanderbank are of Lionel Tollemache 4th Earl of Dysart and Lady Grace Carteret, Countess of Dysart. Grade I listed. 1610 and 1672-1675. Important Jacobean Mansion, 3 storey brick. Originally H-plan. North (river) front with entrance mainly original. Space between wings on south…

This post includes affliate links, read here how these work. Have you discovered this London gem yet? Ham House is a MUST see on any Londoner's bucket list. It has the most gorgeous setting right

Enfilade, pronounced - on fee LAHD, is a suite of rooms formally aligned with each other in a row so that upon entering, one is provided with a vista through the entire group of rooms. The word comes from enfiler, French for to thread or to string things in a straight line. The enfilade was a common arrangement in Baroque palaces of the 17th century. The first room would be a public room, with state rooms thereafter, until the visitor was escorted into the royal bedroom which was treated…

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Today, Ham House and its fabulous gardens — owned and managed by the National Trust — attract tens of thousands of visitors a year, with ongoing improvements making it better each season. Back then, however, the situation was very different. What Cornforth found was a country house which had undergone a huge and conscientious programme …