How Ham House Changed Over Time and What Evidence Survives Flashcards

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Who was mainly responsible for the big changes to Ham House in the 1670s?

Elizabeth Murray, Duchess of Lauderdale, and her husband John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, planned most of the changes.

Rooms were refitted with tapestries, carved wood and mirrors to show wealth and fashion.

More rooms were added, such as extra private rooms and service rooms. This made the house larger and more complex.

They were laid out as formal gardens, with straight paths, shaped hedges and planned flower beds.

It changed very little, so many 17th-century rooms and objects stayed in place.

It stopped being a grand political home and became a quiet country house. Later it became a historic site open to visitors.

Original furniture, like chairs, tables and beds from the 1600s, still stand in the rooms.

Because so much of its 17th-century building, furniture and decoration has survived almost unchanged.

Household inventories, letters and building accounts record the rooms, objects and work done at different dates.

By comparing inventories from different years, historians can see which rooms, furniture and paintings were added or moved.

Old paths, earth banks and the remains of garden buildings show earlier layouts even when plants have gone.

They show how the house and gardens looked in the past, so we can compare them with what survives today.