Period Living

THE MISTS OF TIME

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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