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Latitude: 51.0523 / 51°3'8"N
Longitude: -3.0842 / 3°5'2"W
OS Eastings: 324105
OS Northings: 128662
OS Grid: ST241286
Mapcode National: GBR M2.FSL1
Mapcode Global: FRA 46FB.N8X
Plus Code: 9C3R3W28+W8
Entry Name: Garden Walls, Paving and Steps on the South Front of Hestercombe House
Listing Date: 17 May 1985
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1060514
English Heritage Legacy ID: 270558
ID on this website: 101060514
Location: Gotton, Somerset, TA2
County: Somerset
District: Somerset West and Taunton
Civil Parish: Cheddon Fitzpaine
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
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ST22NW CHEDDON FITZPAINE CP
HESTERCOMBE
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Garden walls, paving and steps
on the South front of Hestercombe
House
GV I
Garden walls, paving and steps on South front of Hestercombe House (qv). 1904-9, restored 1973-5. By Edwin Lutyens and
Gertrude Jekyll for the Hon EWB Portman. Local slate from quarry behind house, flat bedded to give the impression set
without mortar, Ham stone dressings, and millstones. Plan: site sloping away from South front of Hestercombe House
(qv), Southern extent marked by pergola walk, East and West water gardens flanking grand plat set below existing
terrace fo South front, rose garden to West and East circular walls forming rotunda with central pool, on North East
axis, flight of double steps down to Orangery (qv) with steps up to Dutch garden beyond. Described by Hussey as "an
unsurpassed example of his (Lutyens) garden art," (Photographs in NMR; J Brown, Gardens of a Golden Afternoon: Edwin
Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll, 1982; C Hussey, Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 1950; Country Life, October 10th and 17th,
1908).
Listing NGR: ST2410528662
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