Early C20 Italianate garden on terraces, latter presumed to originate from C18. Laid out by Harold Peto for himself; featuring elaborate stonework, statuary and architectural fragments from Italy, colonnade, cloisters, steps up to column in wood, Japanese garden.
Landscape park and pleasure grounds with famous view over Palladian bridge, fish ponds, and city of
Bath, flanked by mature woodlands. Originally laid out 1734-43, attributed to Ralph Allen with help from
Richard Jones and Alexander Pope; ‘Capability’ Brown was paid £60 for survey c1764. Several garden features demolished or removed, including central cascade, statue of Moses, cold bath and Gothic temple in the woods.
Communal garden for terrace built c1825, to designs by John Pinch. Mill Stream widened as it runs through
garden to create ornamental feature; bordered by grassed area and mature trees; enclosed with wrought iron railings.
Viewed from adjoining footpaths.
Early C19 picturesque garden on hanging site overlooking valley and Smallcombe Wood. Laid out by the painter Benjamin Barker, ‘the English Poussin’: terrace near house, fountain and pool, raised stone flowerbed; below terrace an elaborate chain of pools and cascades crossed by single-arched bridge, spectacular cedars.
Fine specimen trees and shrubs; large kitchen garden.
Town garden, containing newly recreated herb garden.
House rented 1766-82 by the scientist and astronomer William Herschel, thought to have had considerable
interest in botany.
Land donated by Beckford’s daughter in 1847 to the rector of Walcot, laid out and used as a parish cemetery. Adjoins Beckford’s tower. Beckford’s tomb was relocated here from Abbey Cemetery, 1848.
Mid C19 garden designed by owner, Jerome Murch, the ‘prince of landscape gardeners’, and featuring rose terraces centred on fountain; small arboretum and a small park grazed by Highland cattle. Rose terraces now grassed over, and most of park built over. Good number of native and exotic trees and shrubs survive, small stone fountain.
