Cottage in Parham park.

The plan of the house shows the 1350s build.(outlined in black

The picture of the house dates from 1770,by Grimm.

Estate Cottage at the south entrance to Parham park, Parham. Single storey stone building. Brick quoins and window dressing. Brick chimney, tile roofing. Building renovated in 1952.Needs to be dated to its construction date.

Latest information.

Parham House.

Country house constructed in 1577 incorporating part of earlier fortified house. The main front of the house is E-shaped. It is constructed of stone rubble and ashlar with a Horsham slab roof. Additions were carried out in 1870.

This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.

It is interesting that this house may at some point been a fortified manor house, or even a Palace, lot more reserach is needed.

There is no map or plan in the Parham archives that shows the position
of the lost village. It is because we have no information about its
whereabouts that we asked if the Worthing Archaeological Society could
do some geophysical work on the site, possibly followed up by
excavation. The only early map we have is an estate map drawn up
between 1750 and 1779 which shows only the odd barn and hovel, and the
stables that were demolished in 1779.

The documentary evidence we have is restricted to a note made by a
descendant of Sir Cecil Bysshopp, 7th Baronet, who stated that he
pulled down what remained of the village, the old stables which lay to
the south-east of the house, and planned the quadrangle of offices and
stables to the north. He died in September 1779. The assumption is
that the village was already in decay by then and that the villagers
had decamped earlier over a period of time.

The estate map is framed and hanging on a wall between the entrance
hall and the shop at Parham House.

Sussex Notes and Queries Vol 15 pp 314-315 - at TQ/059141 which states that the arch classification is "Poor (Vague bumps making no certain pattern)" and history classification "small quantity of documentary evidence for village's former existence but period of desertion not known". And in SAC 25 William Durrant Cooper states "... "and in the park are the remains of a considerable village, of large gardens, a parsonage house, and several meadows, pulled down or altered by former possessors."

Research notes.

Landscape park, pleasance and gardens to Parham. The park was first documented in 1628 and was partly landscaped circa 1778-9 with a lake to the south of the house and plantations and perimeter tree planting. Woodland is present to north of the house. The pleasance also contains a small lake, is laid out with lawns and planted with specimen trees and shrubs which merge into the park. The gardens are late 18th century in date and include a walled garden containing its original layout of walks, an orchard and an orangery. A terrace at the south front of the house is laid out with parterres and statues.

Post Medieval Deer Park 1628

Post Medieval Garden Terrace 1767 to 1799

Post Medieval Orangery 1767 to 1799

Post Medieval Orchard 1767 to 1799

Post Medieval Parterre 1767 to 1799

Post Medieval Statue 1767 to 1799

Post Medieval Walled Garden 1767 to 1799

Post Medieval Lake 1778 to 1779

Post Medieval Landscape Park 1778 to 1779

Post Medieval Lawn 1778 to 1779

Post Medieval Plantation 1778 to 1779

Post Medieval Pleasance 1778 to 1779

Post Medieval Wood 1778 to 1779

Short History of Parham.

Parham .

A short history.

The property, originally owned by the Monastery of Westminster, was granted by King Henry VIII in 1540 to Robert Palmer whose son Sir Thomas decided to build a new dwelling. In 1577 the foundation stone of the present house was laid by Sir Thomas's two-and-a-half year old grandson, another Thomas, who sold the estate in 1601 to Thomas Bysshopp. His descendant, Sir Cecil Bysshopp, became the 12th Lord Zouche in 1816 and Parham remained with the family through the Curzon connection into the 20th Century.

Then in 1922 Parham Park was purchased by the younger son of Viscount Cowdray, The Hon. Clive Pearson and his wife Alicia, daughter of Lord Brabourne. In 1948, after the Second World War when Parham had also been home to evacuee children from London and to Canadian soldiers, Mr and Mrs Pearson opened Parham to the public and were amongst the first to show their house regularly in the post-war years. They were followed in this tradition by their eldest daughter, Veronica Tritton, who devoted her life to Parham. Lady Emma Barnard, elder daughter of the Countess and of the late Earl of Iveagh, is Mr and Mrs Pearson's great-grand-daughter. Mrs Tritton's great-niece.

Mr and Mrs Pearson spent more than 40 years carefully restoring Parham and filling it with a sensitively chosen collection of beautiful furniture, paintings and textiles, also acquiring items originally in the house. The range of portraits is especially notable. There are many rugs and carpets and a particularly important collection of early needlework.

What they created at Parham is a rare survival of mid 20th-Century connoMr and Mrs Pearson were also responsible for the form of the gardens seen at Parham today. The four-acre walled garden includes a Wendy House and an apple orchard. Its large mixed borders and greenhouses are principally devoted to the growing of flowers and plants for the house. Mrs Pearson began the tradition of making arrangements to harmonise with the colours in the rooms. The 18th century Pleasure Grounds extend to seven acres and include a lake, many specimen trees and spring bulbs, swings and a brick and turf maze.

Parham house and gardens are surrounded by some 875 acres of working agricultural and forestry land. This includes 300 acres of ancient park in which fallow deer roam - descendants of the original herd first mentioned in 1628.

Now owned by a Charitable Trust, the house, gardens and park are administered by a Council of Management charged with their care and with the duty of continuing to open Parham to the public.