The Holes has been the site of the University of Bristol,Botanic Garden since 2005. The new garden was designed by Land Use Consultants advised by Peter Crane   The Downs Conservation Area. House 1872.

Informal plantsman’s garden post 1945 on early C18 site: C18 kitchen garden; artificial stream and pools; rich, varied and unusual planting, much collected from the wild in many parts of the world; ‘wild’ woodland. Owner  – daughter of Hiatt Baker, plant collector, of Oaklands, South Gloucestershire. Within Henbury Conservation Area.

C16 manor house; estate owned by the Trottman family from Charles I’s reign to 1857. Kip depicted formal gardens in 1712, but of these little remains; now chiefly lawns and parkland with mature clumps; substantial ha-ha; pond in park; lime avenue from lodge.

Fragmented remains of C18 landscape park and C19 romantic rock valley garden: C18 avenue and specimen trees; sheer rock face and heavily wooded deep valley setting to early C19 picturesque garden features; grotto in rock face; waterfall and pond with statue; tunnel and woodland path to ornamental footbridge; long serpentine stone staircase to valley bottom, all now heavily overgrown.

Small and elaborate C18 garden on a sloping site described by Horace Walpole as “little, but pretty … a very diminutive principality with large pretentions”. Surviving C18 features include a round temple, terracing, yew avenue, and kitchen garden. Periphery of landscape now encroached upon by modern built development.

Landscape park, 1764, by ‘Capability’ Brown for Sir William Codrington, modified 1793 by Emes and Webb, for Christopher Bethell Codrington: church; conservatory; walled kitchen garden; classical garden buildings and lodges; summerhouses; two irregular lakes linked by serpentine aqueduct and castellated Gothic cascade; 1930s terraced flower gardens with fountain; perimeter tree belt, woodlands and well-timbered park; grove of Corsican pines; specimen trees including lime, beech, oak, cedar, Turkey oak, Lucombe oak, holm oak, fern-leaved beech, walnut.

Spectacularly sited Italianate garden, with Prior Park acting as eye-catcher: framework created by the Tugwell family mid C19, present character created since 1961 by the late Sir Sidney and Lady Barratt. Elaborate features include the lawn and formal pool, surrounded by balustrade, urns and statuary, grotto and water garden, terraces, Italian garden; mulberry courtyard and nut courtyard; children’s garden; kitchen garden.