A HISTORY OF SURREY 



with the laurel frieze is painted brown and gold ; the 

 ceiling is plain. 



A doorway in the middle of the gallery gives 

 access to the north drawing-room, which is lighted 

 by two windows in the north side and has a white 

 marble fireplace in the south wall ; the walls are 

 panelled in white and gold, over which are Mortlake 

 tapestries representing scenes of husbandry, &c. ; the 

 ceiling is panelled, the main ribs being enriched with 

 festoons, &c. Next, east of this, is the round gallery 

 or upper part of the marble hall ; the gallery, which 

 is octagonal in plan, runs all round the hall, being 

 narrow at the sides and wider at the ends ; the 

 ceiling is an enriched one with a large oval centre- 

 piece with fruit and flowers. Also opening out of 

 the north drawing-room is the Miniature Room over 



east wing (east of the bedroom) has an earlier stone 

 fireplace with a four-centred Tudor arch with shields 

 in the spandrels and a carved lintel. The room is 

 lined with painted oak panelling with bolection 

 moulds, and has a plain cornice and ceiling. The 

 small room next to it, over the china closet, has similar 

 brown panelling and a red marble fireplace. 



The yellow satin room opens into the small stair- 

 case west of it, from which admittance is gained to 

 a small room (with the laurel-frieze cornice), whence 

 is entered the Queen's audience closet. Adjoining 

 it is another small room, richly decorated and with 

 an arched recess at its end containing a tapestry with 

 the arms of the Duke of Lauderdale and having a 

 painted ceiling representing the Rape of Ganymede ; 

 the fireplace of this room is of scagliola work, 



HAM HOUSE : SOUTH FRONT 



the north-west portico ; this room has a painted 

 ceiling by Verrio. 



The room over the other portico is a dressing-room 

 communicating with the ' Feathers ' or ' Prince of 

 Wales's" bedroom in the north end of the west 

 wing, so called because it formerly had the Prince 

 of Wales's feathers above the fireplace and over the 

 bed. The dressing-room has a stone fireplace 

 with a carved lintel and a shield in the middle. The 

 bedroom has a large plain dark grey marble fireplace, 

 and is lighted by a bay window. The round gallery 

 and the 'feathers ' bedroom can both be entered from 

 the grand stair-hall. South of the stair-hall is the 'Yel- 

 low satin bedroom,' which, as its name implies, is hung 

 with yellow satin brocade ; the fireplace is of yellow- 

 veined grey marble and has a white marble keystone ; 

 the cornice has a deep carved Jacobean frieze, original 

 with the first building ; the room is lighted by a bay 

 window. The dressing-room in the later small 



forming a foliage design in the lintel and twisted 

 pillars in the jambs and with the initials E.D.L. ; 

 the floor is of inlaid parquetry like the Cabal Room, the 

 window ledge is inlaid marble like the fireplace ; 

 opposite the fireplace is a tapestry similar to that in the 

 recess. The Cabal Room, next west, is a large room 

 hung with Mortlake tapestries of the four seasons ; 

 the floor is of oak parquetry of plain basket pattern 

 for the greater part, but for a space of 9 ft. 6 in. 

 across the east end of a much more elaborate design 

 in which the monogram E.D.L. again occurs ; the 

 dado is of white and gold with egg-and-tongue 

 enrichment. The fireplace is of red marble, and the 

 picture frame over it has gilded festoons about it ; 

 the plaster ceiling is ornamented in high relief, the 

 main ribs and the cornice having a laurel-leaf en- 

 richment. The ' Blue and Silver Room ' lies between 

 the Cabal Room and the long gallery, and is lined with 

 blue and silver striped tapestry ; it has a green and 



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