Introduction
The site has a late-18th-century house, which was once the rectory. Features include old walls and specimen trees in a 20th-century garden with lawns, spring-planting and herbaceous borders.
Old walls and specimen trees remain, as well as some of the paths and the entrance drive. However, the extensive gardens are mainly a 20th-century creation consisting of lawns, herbaceous borders, spring bulb-planted grass areas, yew hedges, swimming pool and tennis court. The 12th century church, which forms a backdrop to the house, can still be reached through the opening in the hedge, though the house is no longer a rectory.
- History
The Queen Anne house, dating from about 1790, was the combined rectory, manor house, known as a ‘squireson'. Two wings were added during the 19th century. The Tithe map, 1841, identifies the Rectory belonging to Sir Henry Rivers, rector. It shows a series of drives leading to the house from the north-east corner passing by outhouses ranged around a courtyard. There is a large open area to the west of the house which is surrounded by belts of trees, named as a wood in the tithe apportionment.
- Features & Designations
Designations
Conservation Area
Features
- Tree Belt
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- Kitchen Garden
- Description: The third edition 25? map of 1909 identifies paths leading to a long kitchen garden or orchard area in the north-west.
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- Herbaceous Border
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- Lawn
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- Orchard
- Description: The third edition 25? map of 1909 identifies paths leading to a long kitchen garden or orchard area in the north-west.
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- Manor House (featured building)
- And Rectory
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- Hedge
- Description: Yew hedges.
- Key Information
Type
Garden
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
Survival
Extant
Hectares
1.6
Civil Parish
Itchen Valley
- References
Contributors
Hampshire Gardens Trust