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Hestercombe Gardens

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Added on 23 Apr 2017,

last edited by »biroto-Redaktion« on 23 Apr 2017

Nearby cycle routes and tours

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Bristol to Landʹs End in Cornwall

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2,6 km

Land’s End to John o’Groats

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2,6 km

EuroVelo: Atlantic Coast Route - Part Scotland - Ireland - Wales

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2,6 km

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Type of sights

Manor

 

Name and address

Hestercombe Gardens

GB-TA2 8LG Cheddon Fitzpaine

GEO-data

Geodetic coordinates

51.053142 -3.084075

Elevation

67 m

Communication

Phone

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Hestercombe House and Garden
Hestercombe House and Garden
Hestercombe Gardens, Great Plat
Hestercombe Gardens, Great Plat
Hestercombe Gardens
Hestercombe Gardens
Hestercombe Gardens
Hestercombe Gardens

Hestercombe House is a historic country house in the parish of West Monkton in the Quantock Hills, near Taunton Wikipedia Icon in Somerset, England.

When the house and gardens were inherited by Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (1720–91) in the 18th century, a Georgian landscape garden was laid out, containing ponds, a grand cascade, a gothick alcove, a Tuscan temple arbour (1786), and a folly mausoleum. Bampfylde was an amateur architect of talent and a friend and adviser to Henry Hoare who laid out the gardens at Stourhead Wikipedia Icon. Bampfylde also designed a Doric temple for the grounds, which was built around 1786, with an ashlar tetrastyle prostyle fronted by Tuscan columns and a large modillioned pediment. A Victorian formal parterre was added near the house by Henry Hall in the 1870s.

The Edwardian garden was laid out by Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens between 1904 and 1906 for the Hon E.W.B. Portman, resulting in a garden "remarkable for the bold, concise pattern of its layout, and for the minute attention to detail everywhere to be seen in the variety and imaginative handling of contrasting materials, whether cobble, tile, flint, or thinly coursed local stone".

The "Great Plat" combined the patterned features of a parterre with the hardy herbaceous planting espoused by Miss Jekyll. Lutyens also designed the orangery about 50 m east of the main house between 1904–09, which is now Grade I listed, as are the garden walls, paving and steps on the south front of the house. On either side of the Great Plat are raised terraces with brick water channels. The eastern area is laid out as a Dutch garden laid out with perennial plants such as Large white flowering Yucca gloriosa as groups used vertical elements alternate with purple colored flowering dwarf Lavender (Lavandula), catmint (Nepeta) or silvery colored Zieste (Stachys), Cotton lavender (Santolina), China Rose (Rosa chinensis) or Fuchsia (Fuchsia magellanica).

Since October 2003, the landscape and gardens, extending to over 100 acres (0.40 km2), have been managed by the Hestercombe Gardens Trust, a registered charity set up to restore and preserve the site with a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £3.7M. The Georgian landscape, Victorian shrubbery and terrace and the formal Edwardian gardens combine to create biodiversity and interest for visitors. The site is used by Lesser horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus hipposideros) as both a breeding and wintering roost site. Numbers of Lesser Horseshoes at this site are only exceeded by one other site in southwest England. The bats use roofspaces in a former stable block as a maternity site. It has been designated as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC).

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Wikipedia contributors, 'Hestercombe House', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 15 April 2017, 09:02 UTC, <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hestercombe_House&oldid=775502141> [accessed 23 April 2017]

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23 Apr 2017

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biroto-Redaktion

Hours of opening:

10 am to 6pm – last entry at 5pm (4pm in Winter)

Nearby cycle routes and tours

Route nameTypeDist. to route

Bristol to Landʹs End in Cornwall

Route

2,6 km

Land’s End to John o’Groats

Route

2,6 km

EuroVelo: Atlantic Coast Route - Part Scotland - Ireland - Wales

Route

2,6 km

Added on 23 Apr 2017,

last edited by »biroto-Redaktion« on 23 Apr 2017