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Avebury Manor
Wiltshire
The gardens are laid out as a series of rooms, each with their own character.
Bowood House
Bowood, Wiltshire
Bowood House was built c1725 on the site of a former hunting lodge. It was bought by 1st Earl of Shelburne in 1754 and remains in the family today. The 2nd Earl commissioned Lancelot Brown to layout the Parkland with a lake created from two streams….
Great Chalfield Manor
Great Chalford, Wiltshire
A Fifteenth Century Manor House with Attractive Arts and Crafts Garden Summary close Great Chalfield Manor Summary Described by Pevsner as ‘one of the most
Iford Manor
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
Home to Harold Peto from 1899-1933, the gardens have recently been restored. They include water features, garden buildings, colonnades and herbaceous borders.
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham, Wiltshire
The house was built over the original cloisters and has gone through many additions and alterations. It was here that Fox Talbot experimented with photography.
Longleat
Warminster, Wiltshire
After the Dissolution, Longleat Priory was sold to Sir John Thynne and after a fire in 1567, Thynne employed Robert Smythson to build a new house which was finished by 1580.
Stourhead
Mere, Wiltshire
Set away from the house, nothing prepares you for the magnificent sight of the lake and numerous garden buildings. These include the Pantheon, the Temple of Apollo, the Temple of Flora and the Grotto and plunge pool.
The Courts Garden
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
The house was built c.1720 by a clothier from Bradford-upon-Avon and was bought by John Davis at the end of the eighteenth century. The Courts had a cloth weaving factory at the western end of the garden which was pulled down by Davis’s grandson in 1888; the rubble was used to fill in the two mill ponds.
The Moot
Downton, Wiltshire
Built on the remains of a motte and bailey castle, the gardens were probably created at the same time as the house was remodelled in the late eighteenth century.
Wilton
Salisbury, Wiltshire
The innovative gardens of the seventeenth century were replaced by the 9th Earl between 1733 and 1750. The parterres were grassed over and a Palladian bridge was built over the River Nadder.
