C19 parkland and ornamental woodland to asylum in the style of classical mansion, built 1832 for Edwin Fydell Fox as a copy of Brislington House, Bristol (qv).
Fox was a collector and hybridiser of British ferns from1869 and helped build up the “finest collection in the British Isles” at Bristol Zoological Gardens (qv).
- Associated Buildings
House altered to separate dwellings, connecting arcades demolished c1960s; Northwoods House (LBII); Herridges, Sherborne, Seymour House and Calebs (LB II); Matford House (LB II) all 1832 for Dr. E.L. Fox; fountain (LB II) mid C19.