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    School holiday trails and activities. Spring and autumn lecture lunches. Christmas events
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    Free garden history tour at 2:30, first Thur of month (April–Oct) and every Thur in July and Aug
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    Woodland walk

    About this property

    This gem on the South Downs, rescued after a major fire in 1989, houses an elegant Georgian interior with a famous Grand Tour collection which includes paintings, furniture and ceramics. An 18th-century dolls' house, with original contents, is one of the highlights. The complete servants' quarters in the basement are shown as they were in Victorian days when H. G. Wells's mother was housekeeper. The beautiful and peaceful garden is now fully restored in the early 19th-century Picturesque style, in a downland and woodland setting.

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    Gold painted Bacchus head with vine leaves & grapes on the chimneypiece in the Little Parlour at Uppark, a late 17th-century house set high on the South Downs, West Sussex.
    © NTPL / Andreas von Einsiedel
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