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If you continue along the towpath beyond Richmond Bridge, you'll
arrive
at Ham House after a mile or so, home to the Earls of Dysart for
nearly three hundred years. Expensively furnished in the seventeenth
century, and little altered since then, the house boasts one of the
finest Stuart interiors in the country, from the stupendously ornate
Great Staircase to the Long Gallery, featuring six "Court Beauties" by
Peter Lely. Elsewhere, there are several fine ceiling paintings, some
exquisite parquet flooring, and works by an Dyck and Reynolds.
Another bonus are the formal seventeenth-century gardens (open
all year Mon-Wed, Sat & Sun 10.30am-6pm; £1.50), especially the Cherry
Garden, laid out with a pungent laender parterre, and surrounded by yew
hedges and pleached hornbeam arbors. The Orangery, overlooking the
original kitchen garden, serves as a tearoom.
March, No& Dec Sat & Sun 11am-4.30pm; April-Oct Mon-Wed, Sat & Sun
11am-5.30pm; £5, including gardens. Bus #371 or walk from Richmond tube
station.
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