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.
- Associated Buildings
House (LB II), formerly Smallcombe Grove, designed by H. E. Goodridge for Barker, c1814.
In private residential use.