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An architectural surprise after all the nineteenth century rooms at Titsey. This wing survived from the earlier house on the site and the bedroom is a complete early Georgian room with thick glazing bars and Crown glass in the sashed windows, painted raised and fielded panelling and a pedimented chimneypiece. Architecturally this is the finest room at Titsey. Sir Marmaduke Gresham's will in 1677 referred to a yellow damask bed and this has given the cue for the decoration here with yellow damask curtains on the Georgian four- poster bed and the yellow paint on the wall panels.

The old iron fire-back is dated 1615. On the fireplace wall there are three charming watercolour portraits of the daughters of William Leveson Gower II, Caroline, Emily and Elizabeth by John Moore. Over the fireplace is an oval portrait of Granville Charles and his elder brother Ronald who died young by A. Blackley, 1866. The portrait of Caroline and Selina Leveson Gower between the windows is by George Richmond (1859). On either side of the bed hang two eighteenth century needlework pictures of a parrot and a finch and squirrel by Katherine Maria Gresham, signed with her initials.


The Gallery Bedroom
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