THE MISTS OF TIME
Aug 29, 2019
4 minutes
Words and photographs Leigh Clapp
KEY FACTS
Character Designed to provide a series of vistas. Kentish ragstone walls frame the large sunken medieval fish pond fed by a natural spring, and other areas include a herbaceous border garden with late-season perennials and grasses, island shrub beds and rose garden
Size Ten acres
Aspect Various. The herbaceous garden on the south-west side
Soil Neutral, fertile, well draining
Owners Roy and Annabel Tucker, since 1977
House Imposing 13th-century manor of weathered stone with mullioned windows. In the 17th century some of the house was demolished for building materials. It was restored and extended in 1921
Open Through the National Gardens Scheme on 9 October ()
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