Clandon Park

Clandon Parkis a grand Palladian mansion, built c.1730 by the Venetian architect Giacomo Leoni, and notable for its magnificent two-storeyed Marble Hall.

The house is filled with the superb collection of 18th-century furniture, porcelain, textiles and carpets acquired in the 1920s by the connoisseur Mrs David Gubbay, and also contains the Ivo Forde Meissen collection of Italian comedy figures and a series of Mortlake tapestries.

The attractive gardens contain a parterre, grotto, sunken Dutch garden and a Maori meeting house with a fascinating history.