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St Mary’s House and Gardens
St. Mary's House & Gardens The Street Bramber, Steyning BN44 3WE
Enchanting historic 15th century timber-framed house, with magnificent gardens, and charming cottage-style tea rooms, in the picturesque award-winning downland village of Bramber. St Mary’s is still a lived-in home, with fine panelled rooms, including the unique Elizabethan trompe l’oeil Painted Room, and a beautiful Victorian Music Room still used for concerts.
There are five acres of beautiful gardens, with an exceptional example of the prehistoric Ginkgo Biloba ‘living fossil’ tree, amusing animal topiary, and ‘Secret’ Garden with original Victorian fruit wall and pineapple pits, beautiful rose garden, unusual circular English Poetry Garden, landscape water garden and Rural Museum.
St Mary’s Tearoom re-opening Saturday 14th February & Sunday 15th February
Then each weekend – Saturday and Sunday – 11am – 3pm
Main St Mary’s House & Gardens will re-open for 2026 season: May to Sept
Group Bookings possible other times: April to Sept.
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