Titsey Place

Over het museum

The Gresham family, one of the great merchant dynasties of Tudor England, took up residence at Titsey when Sir John Gresham, a former Lord Mayor of London, bought the manor in 1534 or 1535. He invested in land across the Kent and Surrey border and left his heirs an estate whose core has passed down intact to today. His son William built a new house, which was largely demolished in the 18th century apart from one small wing. The Greshams supported the king in the Civil War, and in 1643 the house was briefly taken over by Parliamentarians.

After a period of decline in the early 18th century, Sir John Gresham, who married an heiress, restored the family fortunes and built a smaller, symmetrical Georgian house on the old site, which is the core of the present building. In 1804 his daughter Katherine Maria, the last of the Greshams, married William Leveson Gower. Their grandson Granville Leveson Gower, squire of Titsey for much of the later 19th century, remodelled the house and gardens and decorated the house with the heraldry of the three families. He also excavated two Roman sites on the estate.

Two of his grandsons, Richard and Thomas, restored the house and gardens after the Second World War, when it had been requisitioned and occupied by Canadian troops. They established the Titsey Foundation to preserve the house, garden, church and parkland for public benefit, on the understanding that the house continues as a family home. Today the estate is open to visitors in the summer and offers woodland walks all year round.

Hoogtepunten

• Guided tour of a historic country house
• Gresham family portraits and four Canaletto views of Venice in the Regency dining room
• Victorian walled kitchen garden
• Queen's Jubilee Rose Garden and landscaped lakes
• Woodland walks open all year
• Tea Rooms café and the estate's herd of Sussex cattle

Vaste collectie

• Guided tour of Titsey Place – A tour of the Georgian house with the Gresham family portraits, the Regency dining room with four Canaletto views of Venice, a 1920s-style drawing room and an early Georgian gallery bedroom.

Beheerder

Titsey Foundation

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

House and gardens: 10 pounds, children under 16 pay 3 pounds. Members of Historic Houses (HHA) enter free with their membership card. Card payment is requested for admission and all other purchases on site.

Toegankelijkheid

• Deels rolstoeltoegankelijk
• Lift: geen informatie
• Aangepast toilet
• Gehandicaptenparkeerplaats
• Hulphonden welkom
• Tastmodellen / voelbare objecten: geen informatie
• Rondleidingen in gebarentaal: geen informatie
• Informatie in eenvoudige taal: geen informatie
• Audiodescriptie: geen informatie

The Victorian walled garden has well-formed gravel paths that wheelchair users can manage in good weather but not in the rain. The house tour covers two floors with steps between many rooms, so it is not suited to visitors with severe mobility problems, and there are no public toilets in the house. The tea rooms have good access, accessible toilets in the nearby dairy and a disabled car park alongside. The tea rooms are about 300 metres (a 10-minute walk) from the house; visitors with limited mobility can ask the office in advance to arrange a wheelchair. Only guide dogs are allowed in the house and gardens.

Kinderen & gezin

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Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

From the A25 between Oxted and Westerham turn into Limpsfield High Street, take Bluehouse Lane at the bottom of the street, then turn right into Water Lane, pass under the M25 and turn right at Pitchfont Lodge. Sat nav postcode RH8 0SA leads to Pitchfont Lodge at the western entrance of the park.

Service & horeca

• Café

The Tea Rooms café serves afternoon tea, light lunches, drinks and refreshments, with indoor and outdoor seating, and also sells local produce and cards of the house and gardens. A picnic area is near the visitors' car park, where all dogs are welcome.

Evenementen & zaalverhuur

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