The Oak tree in the Nursery c1860 Copyright National Trust
The original drive to the 1793 Georgian house and the Victorian rebuild 1895 Copyright National Trust
The south front of the house in 1900 showing the park coming up to the very walls of the house with just an iron fence at the boundary Copyright National Trust …
The south front of the house in 1905 showing the park coming up to the very walls of the house with just an iron fence at the boundary. AT about this time the…
Around 1900 the area to the north of the house was dug out and the soil was used to form Henry Dutton's croquet lawn which protruded into the main lawn. To the…
By the first world war Ralph Duttons mother had begun to make changes around the house. Here can be seen the balustrade that contained the relevelled main lawn.
By the late twenties/early thirties Ralph Dutton begins to influence the garden. Here we see the steps from the Rose garden and the newly planted Irish Yews and…
Ralph Dutton took over the financial responsibilty for the garden in 1931 annd here we see the original planting of the Irish yews in the long walk with the…
In 1933 Ralph Dutton persuaded his father to allow him to cut back the croquet lawn in line with the terrace at the front of the house. Here we see work in…
The finished project after the removal of that part of the croquet lawn that projected into the mainlawn. At the same time the steps to the Rose Garden (Yew…
The surplus soil from the croquet lawn was deposited on the south side of the balustrade to level the site and form the sunken garden. At the same time the long…
A view from the Rose(Yew) garden in 1934 immediately after the croquet lawn had been reduced in size and the steps from the terrace to the rose garden…
A view from the Tennis Court probably in 1936.The sunken garden steps have yet to be widened and the steps down to the Tennis Court have yet to be constructed.…
Another view from the Tennis Court with the house in an advanced stage of conversion and the newly constructed Tennis Court steps The steps were constructed as…
By 1938 the steps to the sunken garden had been widened and re-alligned with the centre point of the house Copyright National Trust
As the conversion of the house neared completion in 1939 it can be seen that the old drive from the east was still in existence albeit now reduced to not much…
A view of the newly converted house in 1939. The Irish Yews in the long walk are progressing slowly but the yew hedge on the top of the banl in line with the…
In 1939 the Irish Yews on the path to the iron gate are beginning to establish themselves Copyright National Trust
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