Detail of a carved trophy of arms on the staircase at Ham House. The main of the house was constructed by Thomas Vavasour, a naval captain, among 1608 and 1610. It experienced an H-approach and was of standard Jacobean form, crafted of brick with stone dressings, but was much altered in the later seventeenth century.… Continue reading Detail of a carved trophy of arms on the staircase at Ham House (1637-39)