Official List Entry Comments and Photos Overview Heritage Category: Listed Building Grade: II List Entry Number: 1184260 Date first listed: 30-Jul-1986 List Entry Name: HAM SPRAY HOUSE Statutory Address: HAM SPRAY HOUSE, SPRAY ROAD The Missing Pieces Project Share your view of unique places. Add your contribution Location Ham Spray House is about 4-5 miles south of Hungerford, just east of the village of Ham, and just south of the road between Ham and Inkpen. Carrington discovered Ham Spray in October 1923 when visiting Wiltshire. It was for sale (from Major Huth) for the freehold price of £3,000.
NPG Ax13035; Ham Spray House (sitting room) Large Image National
Ham Spray House, a Grade II Listed building leading off a private driveway on the Inkpen-Ham Road, was the residence of prominent members of the Bloomsbury Group including Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington and Frances Partridge. Ham Spray House, just east of Ham village at grid reference SU 343 630 is c. 1830. [7] An Ordnance Survey map published in 1961 shows the house and outbuildings standing in parkland; [8] today, large agricultural buildings are immediately north of the house. The parish, (fn. 1) in a secluded position away from main thoroughfares, is on the eastern boundary of Wiltshire. (fn. 2) Until that part of Shalbourne which abuts on the west was transferred from Berkshire to Wiltshire in 1894, Ham, with its southern neighbour Buttermere, formed a peninsular jutting eastwards into Berkshire. (fn. 3) Hungerford. House & Family History: Ham Spray House is famous today as the home of Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, and Ralph Partridge, leaders of the Bloomsbury Group. In a complicated relationship, Carrington and Partridge (who married each other in 1921) were in a long-term ménage à trois with Strachey. In a fluid and very open relationship, the.
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Ham Spray House, Ham Spray is a freehold detached house spread over 7,716 square feet, making it one of the largest properties here - it is ranked as the most expensive property* in SN8 3QZ, with a valuation of £3,175,000. Since it last sold in May 2009 for £2,035,000, its value has increased by £1,140,000. By the end of 1925 Marshall was a permanent fixture at Ham Spray House, and perhaps because of this Olive became a companion of sorts for Carrington. At first Olive's duties were simply those of a housemaid: cleaning, bed-making, emptying chamber pots and lighting fires. However, she evidently soon helped with the cooking too, as a year after. Ham Spray House, Wiltshire was the home of Dora Carrington and Lytton Strachey from 1924 to 1932. The house was bought in Ralph Partridge's name and he lived there intermittently between 1924 and 1932. After that, he lived at Ham Spray House with Frances Partridge until his death in 1960. Frances Partridge moved from Ham Spray House to London. HAM SPRAY ROAD SU 36 SW 6/126 Ham Spray House II House; c1830. Stucco on brick, slate roof. Two-storey, 5 bays to garden front, with long extension to east, the rear brick laced flint. Central door, half- glazed with margin glazing, and large 12-pane sashes. Square cast iron porch with raised ball rinial, remodelled from original verandah.
'A Bloomsbury Tea Party' (Ham Spray House, Wiltshire, home of Lytton
. Ham Spray House A Grade II Listed Building in Ham, Wiltshire We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one? Approximate Location Map + - Leaflet | © OpenStreetMap contributors Large Map » Coordinates Latitude: 51.3655 / 51°21'55"N Longitude: -1.5086 / 1°30'30"W OS Eastings: 434309 OS Northings: 163050 It was Carrington's complicated relationship with one of group's members, the writer and critic Lytton Strachey, that caught the imagination of director Christopher Hampton, whose 1995 film Carrington depicts the life and loves of the artist, played by Emma Thompson.
View of the garden at Ham Spray House with snow on the ground, 1930-12-19 Scope and Contents From the File: In the page numbering, pages 13 and 14 follow page 16. Several photographs were removed before the album was transferred to King's College. Dates 1930-12-19 Extent 1 item (s) (1 item in album) : photographic print Language of Materials Ham Spray House (sitting room) by Unknown photographer bromide snapshot print, mid-late 1920s 4 5/8 in. x 6 1/8 in. (117 mm x 157 mm) image size Purchased, 1979 Photographs Collection NPG Ax13035 Artist Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6578 portraits. Linked publications
Bloomsbury friends take tea on the verandah at Ham Spray House (from
Referee Michael Oliver sprays a line during the Premier League match between West Ham United and Leicester City at The London Stadium on August 23,. tower of babel (genesis 11), wood engraving, published 1860 - ham spray stock illustrations There are three short 16mm films by Beakus Penrose, filmed in and around Ham Spray in 1929 that are now posted on YouTube. They were conserved by the National Film & Television Archive for "Carrington: the Exhibition," Barbican Art Gallery, 1995. The films are:
