Landscape park and pleasure grounds late C17 and C18: remains of extensive formal park with avenues and cross rides including work by George London and Henry Wise, Charles Bridgeman (late C17/early C18), William Kent (c1746), Thomas Wright (c1747-50), ‘Capability’ Brown (c1760s), with flower gardens and pleasure grounds C19. Includes Italianate orang garden; walled kitchen garden; numerous garden buildings; avenues, woodland walks, specimen trees, clumps.
- Associated Buildings
House (LB I) 1660s-90s, 1730s-50s by Francis and William Smith of Warwick, Kent, with pavilions by James Gibbs; c1810 by Wyatville; 1838-51 and later by T.H. Wyatt and D. Brandon.
Swangrove House (LB I); a maison de plaisance c1703 by William Killigrew of Bath; bath house, orangery, almshouse c1714; Worcester Lodge (LB I) c1740 by Kent; root-house (LB II*) 1747 by Wright; Castle Barn (LB II*) 1748 by Wright; Ragged Castle (LB II*), cottages ornées (LB II*), castellated barn, Deer House (LB II*), two Gothic ‘Slait Lodges’ (LB II*) all c1750 by Wright; Church (LB I) 1785 attributed Charles Evans, probably Wright; Bath Lodge (LB II) early C19; dovecotes; numerous other listed features including estate cottages, houses and shops, farmhouses, farm buildings, icehouses, bridges, walls, gates and railings, etc.
- Other Notes
Great Badminton and Little Badminton Conservation Areas.