Stage one
Before
An open sloping site awaiting a clear historic structure and productive planting.
Discover
The garden
A formal yet useful town garden, recreated with herbs, fruit, flowers, clipped hedging and the proportions of a 17th-century plot.
A garden with purpose
Beautiful, ordered and useful.
The design balances display with the everyday value of medicinal herbs, culinary plants, fruit and productive beds.
Research informed the layout and planting so that the garden feels rooted in the period without becoming a frozen reconstruction. It changes through the seasons and rewards repeat visits.
Include it in your visitTransformation
From open ground to living history.
The present garden was shaped through research, construction and careful planting, then opened as a new chapter in the visitor experience.
Stage two
During
Paths, beds, walls and levels were built to create the garden’s framework.
Stage three
Living garden
Hedges, fruit, herbs and seasonal colour now soften the geometry year after year.
Planting palette
What grows here.
The garden combines practical crops and ornament, reflecting a period when beauty, medicine, cooking and household management belonged together.
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Culinary herbs
Fragrant plants for flavouring, preserving and everyday kitchen use.
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Medicinal plants
Species associated with traditional household remedies and physic gardens.
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Fruit & structure
Old fruit varieties, clipped box, trees and trellis give the garden rhythm.
Plan your day
Pause among the herbs and hedges.
The garden is included in a house visit and is especially rewarding from spring through early autumn.