Pendean Farmhouse from Midhurst, Sussex
Interiors

As part of a major project funded by the Designation Challenge Fund the interior of the farmhouse has been substantially altered from its original interpretation, see "Pendean Farmhouse benefits from Designation funding".

The interior of the building has been fully furnished and this is the first of three projects to furnish all of the Museum's 17th century houses - Poplar Cottage, Pendean and Walderton - to try to differentiate between them on the social scale.

The entry showing an internal wall 
decorated with ruddling and pencilling

Museum carpenter Roger Champion in the kitchen room of the 
farmhouse constructing replica furniture for the house

The central hall of the farmhouse

The chimney decorated with ruddling and pencilling

Earthenware and wooden pots and bowls in the 
inner room or pantry  of the farmhouse

September 2001

The bedroom is now complete with bed, child's cot, storage chests and a finely ruddled and pencilled fireplace.

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