URPoint Details
Garden free; parking; guided tours; restaurant; no dogs allowed; house unsuitable for back packs and wheelchairs.
Parking near house for disabled drivers; disabled and elderly visitors may be set down and collected near house; access to house by steep ramps only suitable for assisted wheelchair users; lift access to first floor by request; grounds include mostly firm but some deep gravel paths. Orangery restaurant & shop accessible via ramps.
Outstanding Stuart house, built for Sir Thomas Vavasour in 1610, enlarged, redecorated and furnished in 1637-0 by William Murray, Earl of Dysart extended and remodelled in the 1670s by Murray\'s daughter Elizabeth and her second husband John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, much of which survives.
In 1948 Sir Lionel Tollemarche and Cecil Tollemarche, descendants of the Duchess of Lauderdale presented Ham House to the National Trust.
18 acres of a 17th century garden, originally laid out in the 1670s principally by the Duke and Duchess of Lauderdale the parterres, flower gardens, orangeries, groves, avenues, courts, statues, fountains, aviaries and all this on the banks of the river Thames. Some of the formality was lost in the 19th century with the
- Type:
- Landmark