Parham Park
Parham Park, also Parham House, a mansion from the Elizabethan era in Cootham between Storrington and Pulborough, West Sussex / England.
History
The simple gray stone building was built in 1577 for Sir Thomas Palmer. Palmer, who accompanied the privateer Sir Francis Drake in his escapades against the Spaniards, already sold the house in 1610 again. The buyer was Bysshopp family whose ramified kinship lines should have the house eleven generations in possession. 1922 Parham Park by Clive Pearson was purchased, bequeathed the manor to his daughter. After her death in 1993 it went to their great-niece, Lady Emma Barnard, over, who lives with her family in 1994 on the property. " Parham House and Gardens " is now a " Charitable Trust ".
Interior
All owners have made efforts to maintaining and expanding Parham Park, while preserving recognizable sound judgment. In 1800 the main entrance was relocated to the north side and built to a large entrance hall.
The magnificent Great Hall has several large windows and an original stone fireplace. The beautifully decorated ceiling was indeed rebuilt in the 19th century, but gives the room still the atmosphere of the 16th century. The long gallery has its original floor and its original carved oak paneling. The Great salon and other rooms were extremely carefully restored; for example, in 1935 renewed plaster like old times by hand was modeled.
The interior remained unchanged at all, and today's appearance is determined by carved wall panels and furniture from the times of the Tudors and Jacobean. It also includes several paintings and historical portraits, including a famous portrait of Queen Elizabeth, possibly by Federico Zuccari.
Garden
From the original garden, just a few elements are only preserved. These include a landscaped lake in the 18th century as well as the site of the former walled kitchen garden. Everything else was in the 20th century, after Clive Pearson had purchased the property. The centerpiece is the walled garden with borders, shrubs and pretty dovecote: on the south side are at the beginning of Midway two wrought-iron gates, and on the north side there is a summer house with decorative gables leaning against the wall. In the southern extension of the system include a number of smaller garden spaces, including with herb garden and rose garden at. Another part of the walled garden complete large, book -lined beds.
Game park
The part belonging to Parham Park land size of 354 acres and includes a historic deer park. The living today there deer goes back to a herd that was first described in 1628. The area of the game park because of its epiphytic lichen flora, because it is a habitat for two rare beetles, and expelled because of his big -breasted stand as a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ).