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From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
Date: 20070120
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Ham House in Surrey may be famous today as one of the most haunted houses in the country, but when Horace Walpole visited in the late 18th Century, he found the place 'in tatters'.

Even the furniture was 'magnificently ancient, dreary and decayed', a dreadfully sad state of affairs as this fine building is now a prestigious property in the hands of the National Trust.

It had been built in 1610 for Sir Thomas Vavasour, Knight Marshal to James I, on whose death ...

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