Lamb House

[5][4] Benson wrote lovingly of both the garden and house, which he renamed "Mallards", in his popular Mapp and Lucia novels.

[7] Other tenants have included the novelist Rumer Godden, the author and academic A. C. Benson, the author and politician H. Montgomery Hyde, the artist and publisher Sir Brian Batsford,[8] politician William Mabane, 1st Baron Mabane,[9] the literary agent Graham Watson,[10] the actor Dominic Rowan and his family,[11] and the writers John Senior and Sarah Philo.

[citation needed] In 1950 the widow of Henry James's nephew gave Lamb House to the National Trust.

[2] In 2006 Lamb House was subject to extensive exterior refurbishment, including the application of bird control proofing measures to prevent seagulls from nesting and blocking the internal parapet drainage systems.

[12] During summer 2014, Lamb House was used as the fictional "Mallards" for a BBC TV adaptation of E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia.