HAM SPRAY HOUSE

HAM SPRAY HOUSE, SPRAY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184260
Date first listed:: 30-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: HAM SPRAY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HAM SPRAY HOUSE, SPRAY ROAD

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Date:: 2001-11-01
Reference:: IOE01/05989/27
Rights:: © Mr Graham J Greaves. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184260
Date first listed:: 30-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: HAM SPRAY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HAM SPRAY HOUSE, SPRAY ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HAM SPRAY HOUSE, SPRAY ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ham
National Grid Reference:: SU 34309 63050

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 28/06/2017

SU 36 SW 6/126

HAM, SPRAY ROAD, Ham Spray House

II

House; c1830. Stucco on brick, slate roof. Two-storey, Five bays to garden front, with long extension to east, the rear brick laced flint. Central door, half- glazed with margin glazing, and large 12-pane sashes. Square cast iron porch with raised ball finial, remodelled from original verandah. To rear, central bay drawn forward with wide entrance door and side lights. Wing to west terminates in bow with four sashes each floor. Roof hipped with boxed eaves. Interior: Ceiling cornices. Blue and yellow tiles in kitchen and larder said to be by Dora Carrington.

Ham Spray House was home to artist Dora Carrington, Ralph Partridge and writer Lytton Strachey. Carrington and Partridge married in 1921 and the trio moved to Ham Spray House in 1924. They shared a ménage a trois, and had open relationships, often with same-sex partners. Strachey died in 1932, and Dora Carrington committed suicide shortly after. Strachey wrote Elizabeth and Essex (1928), Portraits in Miniature (1931) and Characters and Commentaries (1933) in the first floor library of Ham Spray House. The library, designed by Carrington, retains fireplace tiles with Strachey’s monogram, a painting of an owl on a book, and a false bookcase with bookspines of books with humorous titles. Ham Spray House is an important building connected with the Bloomsbury Group, a group of artists and writers of the early-to-mid twentieth century. The group included Carrington, Partridge, Strachey, Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, E.M. Forster and John Maynard Keynes. The group was in the vanguard of English modernism, influential in art, literature, philosophy and culture. Many members of the group shared sexual and romantic relationships with each other.

Listing NGR: SU3430963050

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Legacy System number:: 310851
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.