Hidcote Manor at Hidcote Manor Garden

A late August Bank Holiday weekend visit to Hidcote Manor Garden

Hidcote Manor Garden is a garden in the United Kingdom, located at the village of Hidcote Bartrim, near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. It is one of the best-known and most influential Arts and Crafts gardens in Britain, with its linked "rooms" of hedges, rare trees, shrubs and herbaceous borders. Created by Lawrence Johnston, it is owned by the National Trust and is open to the public.

The Americans, Lawrence Johnston and his mother, settled in Britain about 1900, and Lawrence immediately became a British citizen and fought in the British army during the Boer war. In 1907 Johnston's mother, Mrs Gertrude Winthrop (she had re-married), purchased the Hidcote Manor Estate. It was situated in a part of Britain with strong connections to the then-burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement and an Anglicized American artistic expatriate community centred nearby at Broadway, Worcestershire.

Johnston soon became interested in turning the fields around the house into a garden. By 1910 he had begun to lay out the key features of the garden, and by the 1920s he had twelve full-time gardeners working for him.

After World War II Johnston spent most of his time at Jardin Serre de la Madone, his garden in the south of France; and in 1947 he entrusted Hidcote to the National Trust.

The style of the garden has been widely imitated. In 2007 a temporary garden designed by Chris Beardshaw that drew inspiration from Johnson's Hidcote was constructed at the Chelsea Flower Show in London.

These views from the plant sales area to the back of the Barn Cafe.

Hidcote Manor behind is a Grade II Listed Building.

Hidcote Manor

Listing Text

SP 14 SE EBRINGTON HIDCOTE BARTRIM

5/46 Hidcote Manor

GV II

Former farmhouse, enlarged to form manor house. Early C20. Late
C17 block refronted C18 with C20, C17 style block attached, built
under the patronage of Gertrude Winthrop for her son Lawrence
Johnston. Late C17 block: ashlar limestone with tiled roof.
Flat coped gables. Moulded stone eaves cornice with sundial
finial far left and vase finial far right. Continuous band over
ground floor windows. Rectangular ashlar gable end stacks. C20
block; squared limestone with limestone slate roof, with flat
coped gables with ball finials. Group of 8 octagonal stacks from
gable end to rear. C20 lead guttering to both blocks, probably by
Norman Jewson with initials G.W., (Gertrude Winthrop), dog tooth
decoration and scroll shaped brackets. Plan: C17 block with C18
facade extends back on right to form one side of a courtyard. C20
block attached rear right C17/18 block: 2 storeys and attic, lit by
3, segmental headed dormers from roof. 3-windowed: single and
twinned 12-pane sashes. Central 7-panel door in classical
surround with engaged Doric columns supporting open triangular
pediment. 3-pane light with garlanded glazing bars over. Right
wall has mullioned and transomed windows and C18 doorway with a
bolection moulded surround, broken pediment and coat of arms. C20
block has single principal gable to courtyard and twin gabled walls
to right and left. 2 storeys and attic. 3-light stone-mullioned
windows with flat hoods some mullioned and transomed windows also.
Venetian style canted oriel window in left wall. All windows in
C20 block have leaded lights.
Interior: fine C18 fireplace with black marble surround with
classical, dancing figure frieze, in front left room ground floor.
National Trust property.

Listing NGR: SP1762942855

This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.

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Taken in: UK / England / Cotswold District / Hidcote (show map)

Taken on: August 25, 2019

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