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Remains of elaborate enclosed Tudor garden on pre- Conquest site: formal planting from time of Henry VIII; C16 bee-boles; C18 ha-ha; specimen cedars and sequoia; yew topiary hedges and arbour; lawns and flowerbeds enclosed by castellated walls; Armillary sundial; recent vineyard.
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Remnant of C17 formal garden; remains of sunken parterre; summerhouse; orchard; yew topiary hedging; walled kitchen garden; ha-ha. .
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C19 landscape garden to former private asylum in the style of classical mansion, now subdivided and partly built over: wooded drive with mature oak and yew; undulating lawn with mature copper beech, cedar and yew; shrubbery walk; derelict belvedere 1930s; stone alcove; remains of fruit and vegetable gardens; five separate estate houses for wealthy inmates. The layout of principal building copied at Northwoods. South Gloucestershire (qv). Also known as Long Fox Manor. Now private apartments.
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C19 school grounds on site of late C18 Tyndall’s Park to Royal Fort House (qv), now much built over: terrace; mature trees; rockery; shrubs. Tyndall’s Park Conservation Area.
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Hospital garden 1926-27 in memory of Harold Edgar Melville Wills (d.1925) in style of garden at Bracken Hill House, North Somerset (qv), on early C19 garden of Cotham House: lodge and drive early C19; formal rose garden with pond, fountain, paved areas, terraces and stone walls; winding gravel walks through extensive Pulhamite rockeries; water gardens, now disused; mature specimen trees; sunken kitchen garden now with temporary buildings; tennis court on part of former rockery. Whiteladies Road Conservation Area.
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C19 school grounds: terrace; cherry avenue; boundary limes. Clifton Conservation Area.
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School grounds on C18 parkland: terraces; ha-ha; steps to parkland, remodelled as playing fields “in memory of the old Colstonians who fell in the war 1939-45”; icehouse; mature woodland riverside walks with rubble wails; remains of bathing pool in River Frome; earlier quarries remodelled as picturesque features, especially Black Rocks, probably early C19, possible involvement of Humphry Repton. Stapleton & Frome Valley Conservation Area.
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Early C19 garden, now partly built over, on early C18 site by Mrs. Jean Anderson and John Wedgwood, a founder member of the Royal Horticultural Society and son of Josiah Wedgwood: drive with mid C19 cast-iron post and chain fence; stable block, now warden’s cottage; terrace walk and orangery; terraced lawn; Pulhamite rockery; balustraded terrace walk to greenhouses; fruit and vegetable garden; paddock with mature native and exotic specimen trees. The Downs Conservation Area.
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Semi-formal town garden 1732-1768 by Thomas Goldney, partly built over 1969 for Bristol University residential blocks: axial yew avenue to grotto with parallel canal; grotto with Gothic tower above on terrace which runs at right angle to main axis, leads to bastion and rotunda; wide views; box parterre with herbs, formerly rose garden; West Walk with stone wall and balustrade, herbaceous border; Olde Worlde Garden 1980s with C18 style planting on former vegetable garden; sunken walk and rock garden. Statue of Hercules (LB II) 1758; pair of Corinthian Columns (LIB II) probably from original doorway c1720, erected as garden feature c1865 by Waterhouse; grotto (LB I) 1737-64 by Goldney, restored 1987 by Simon Verity and Diana Reynell; Gothic tower (LB II*) 1764 to house ‘Fire Engine’ which pumped water for grotto cascade and canal fountains; rotunda (LB II) 1757;
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C18 walled garden within larger walled enclosure on C15 site; prominent ridge-top site contiguous with Stoke Park, South Gloucestershire (qv); scenic drive with views over Bristol; mature specimen trees and woodland; lodge; barn; cottages. Heath House closed as a ward of Purdown Hospital c1988. It is now owned by Priory Hospitals Group as a private psychiatric centre (1991). Stapleton & Frome Valley Conservation Area.