Hammerwood Park

04/06/2026

🎵 Concert at Hammerwood Park – this Saturday, 6 June, 4.00 p.m. Saxophone 🎷 and piano 🎹

We’re delighted to welcome saxophonist Samuel Beddard and pianist Jo Foote to Hammerwood this Saturday.

Samuel and Jo are touring their critically acclaimed recital series What Shapes A Soul? – praised as “absolutely sensational” and “a fabulous evening of music”.

The programme is a grand musical adventure exploring spirituality across the centuries: from American gospel and the hymns of Sam Cooke, through the Romantic classical writing of Steven Banks, back to the roots of it all in Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s spirituals, New Orleans jazz, and African traditional music. Finally, a folk finale – Beddard’s own composition, Suite after Abel Selaocoe, exploring Selaocoe’s unique musical voice bringing African traditional music to new audiences.

Please call 01342 850594 to let us know you’re coming.

🏛️ House tour: 2.00 p.m. £10pp, children free.
🎶 Concert: 4.00 p.m. £20pp, children free, adults bringing children £10.
📍 Hammerwood Park, East Sussex, RH19 3QE

29/04/2026

🎹 This Saturday, 2 May, 4.00 p.m. Jasmin Allpress, piano

We’re delighted to welcome the brilliant Jasmin Allpress to Hammerwood this weekend.

Jasmin’s programme moves through four centuries of inner landscape: C.P.E. Bach’s Fantasia in F sharp minor, composed in 1788, shortly before Hammerwood was built, opens with something almost improvisatory and rather volatile. Janáček’s In the Mists was written in 1912, a few years after the death of his daughter, Olga. It is his last work for solo piano and paints an impressionistic and introspective picture. After the interval, Debussy’s Images Book 1 (1901–05) shimmers with colour and harmonic ambiguity, before Brahms brings the afternoon to a close with his mighty Third Sonata, a five-movement work of almost symphonic scale, written when the composer was just twenty, and containing some of the most passionate love music in the entire piano repertoire.

Jasmin is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music. A prizewinner at the Wigmore Hall and the recent winner of first prize for piano at the Rebecca Clarke Song Competition, she has performed at the Bridgewater Hall, Wigmore Hall and the Wiener Saal in Salzburg, and is a founding member of the award-winning Larisa Piano Trio.

Please telephone 01342 850594 if you’d like to come. Adults £20, children free, adults bringing children half price. Doors open at 3.30 p.m. but you are welcome to wander in the garden beforehand: the rhododendrons are just emerging.

14/04/2026

Piano recital at Hammerwood Park
This Saturday, 18 April, 4.00 p.m.

We’re delighted to open this year’s programme at Hammerwood with a recital of real ambition and range.

Bridget Yee has created a wonderful and varied programme. She will open with Liszt’s own piano transcription of the Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, before turning to two of Samuel Barber’s Excursions, a set of pieces that find a classically trained American composer falling joyfully in love with jazz and the blues. Earl Wild’s arrangement of Gershwin's Embraceable You continues the American thread, and Haydn’s Fantasia in C offers a moment of wit and surprise, before the programme’s centrepiece: Liszt’s B minor Sonata.

The Sonata is takes the listener on one of the most gripping emotional journeys in the piano repertoire, by turns turbulent, tender, and transcendent, reflecting the travails and complications in Liszt’s own life. If you’ve never heard it live, this is your opportunity.

Admission £20. Children free; accompanying adults half price. Please write to us at [email protected] or phone 01342 850594 to let us know you are coming, and please do bring guests.

Dog not included, but we are quite sure she likes Liszt, and are pleased to guarantee that the Sonata will induce in you the same wistful gaze into the middle distance.

Latrobe built the US Capitol and the White House porticos. But first, he built Hammerwood.

19/03/2026

Nature's gold - spring has sprung at last!

07/09/2025

We'll be closed to visitors on Wednesday 10 September, but open as usual on Saturday 13 September; tour at 2.00 p.m.

01/08/2025

🎶 Live Music at Hammerwood Park – this Sunday, 3 August, 4pm! 🎶

Join us for an enchanting afternoon of historic music in the magical setting of Hammerwood Park, featuring Alexandra Kremakova performing on Harpsichord and 1802 Fortepiano.

From the mystery of early anonymous compositions to the brilliance of Bach and the drama of William Byrd’s The Battell, written around 1590, this concert offers a tapestry of sound across centuries, performed on beautifully restored period instruments.

🪑 TICKETS:
🎟️ £20 Adults
👨‍👩‍👧 HALF PRICE for adults bringing children
🧒 FREE for young people!

📧 Email [email protected] to reserve your seats – limited availability.

🎼 PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS:
Part I: Early Music Treasures
• Les Nimphes de la Grenouillere – Anon (17th c.)
• Sir John Smith’s Almain – John Dowland
• Lady Nevell’s Grownde – William Byrd
• The Battell (selections) – William Byrd
• Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs – Jean-Baptiste Lully
• Balletto – Bernardo Storace
Part II: From Baroque to Modern
• Toccata quarta – Claudio Merulo
• Sinfonia No.15, Chromatic Fantasy, Toccata in C minor BWV 911 – J.S. Bach
• Fantasie in D minor – W.F. Bach
• Varianti – Svetlin Hristov (1991)
• Plus rare gems from the Mulliner Book and beyond!

🎹 Don't miss this rare chance to hear music from the Renaissance to the present day on authentic instruments – a feast for music lovers of all ages!
📍 Find us: Hammerwood Park
📆 Save the Date: Sunday 3rd August, 4pm
📢 Please share with friends and family – especially those with curious young listeners!

24/12/2024

Festive greetings from Hammerwood Park to all our friends! Wishing everyone a very jolly Christmas and a brilliant year ahead in 2025. Image: a Coadestone panel at Hammerwood Park depicting a scene of Bacchic revelry (1792).

10/08/2024

‼️ Deadline this Friday 16 August – act now to save Hammerwood’s sister house and the only other Latrobe building in Europe 🚨

Help to save internationally significant heritage at Ashdown House, Sussex, from destruction and carving up into 47 luxury apartments and suburban houses. Find out how you can have your say and support the campaign today.