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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.
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