The London native finds beauty in the less obvious, the least glossy and the most idiosyncratic of rooms, chateaus and even potting sheds.
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The Heritage Trust for the North West plans to restore the walled garden, as a 'Heritage Garden' in a separate project from the hall, the greenhouse and potting sheds would become a visitor entrance to the property.
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The festival is held on the first Saturday in June each year. Plants, primitive bird houses, yard ornaments, potting sheds, quilts, herbal vinegars and oils, handmade baskets, candles, soaps, furniture, potpourris, stoneware, and much more are provided by over 100 vendors from Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado and Arkansas.
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The walled garden, constructed in 1835, has a greenhouse and potting sheds on its north wall and a heated outdoor wall. The FBH aims to restore it into a heritage garden as part of a three-phase project. A cricket field and tennis lawns were situated beyond a ha-ha and accessed via a yew tunnel.
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Bank Hall walled garden and greenhouse (2009) The walled garden contains a greenhouse and potting sheds along the north wall and a heated outdoor wall which runs a quarter of the length of the east wall. The gardeners grew exotic plants and fruit trees in the greenhouses. The apple trees at the south end of the walled garden survived and comprise Laxton's Superb (c.1922), Worcester Pearmain (c.
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The HTNW has separate plans for a visitor entrance and heritage garden. Planning permission to convert the potting shed and greenhouse into a visitor entrance, funded separately, was granted in December 2011.Bank Hall Action Group (2011) "Winter News Letter – Potting Sheds (Phase 1) Project" A further £50,000 was awarded by WREN (a non- profit company) towards the restoration of the tower in September 2013. Restoration work began on the house in early August 2017, with the view of a completion date of 18 months time.
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Another magazine called The Shed, a bimonthly PDF magazine produced in the UK, but with a global audience, targets people who work (usually in creative industries) in garden offices, sheds and other shed-like atmospheres. In the UK, people have long enjoyed working in their potting sheds; the slang term "sheddie", to refer to a person enamoured of shed-building, testifies to the place of sheds in UK popular culture. A Usenet Newsgroup "uk.rec.sheds" has long championed this subculture: their lengthy FAQ is a masterly summary of the idea.
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There was a 'large square block of stabling' (for 15 horses); a six-booth coach house; barn; cowsheds; bailiff's cottage; bothy; potting sheds; 'good' greenhouses; two walled gardens; five pairs of freehold cottages (three at Shrubs Hill and two at Knowle Hill); two lodge cottages; and a gardener's cottage. From the 1830s through 1841 Col. Challoner was resident at 29 Portman Square. In January 1842, Boyle's Court Guide listed him at 169 New Bond Street (The Clarendon Hotel), and from 1843 until death at 11 Charles Street, Mayfair.
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The Gothic-style Mausoleum The gardens and policies were added to the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland in 2011 because it is an "all-round, outstanding designed landscape". Designated as "outstanding" within six of the seven categories (work of art, historical, horticultural, architectural, scenic and archaeological), it is listed as of high importance in the assessment for the nature conservancy listing. To the northwest of the mansion is a square walled garden. Enclosed inside the high perimeter walls are greenhouses and outside are several lean- to stores, potting sheds and a single storey cottage for the gardener.
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There are plans to re-build the potting sheds, greenhouse and walled garden into a heritage kitchen garden, to create a fern garden, a colour-themed garden and sunken garden/pond, to re-instate the garden paths and walls to re-create an enclosed formal garden and walled garden, manage the woodland and create a butterfly garden in the wildflower garden. The ha-ha will be restored along with pathways and the historic vistas. Grafts will be taken from the remaining fruit trees and replanted in the new development to regenerate the area but maintain the site history.
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Leverton was a hamlet under the civil parish of Chilton Foliat, an unusual parish as it was split across Wiltshire and Berkshire. Leverton, however, was situated completely on the Berkshire side of the parish, and would be transferred to Hungerford parish in 1895. A set of six thatched cottages, known as Leverton Cottages, were built some time after 1767, and over the following hundred years a further four were built in the same style to match. The village is a complete survival of an 18th/19th century estate village and comprises a model farm, Gardener's bothy, Head Gardener's cottage, kitchen garden with a full set of boiler houses and potting sheds, thatched apple store and as well as the Leverton Cottages originally inhabited by estate workers.
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There was a 'large square block of stabling' (for 15 horses); a six booth coach house; barn; cowsheds; bailiff's cottage; bothy; potting sheds; 'good' greenhouses; two walled gardens; five pairs of freehold cottages (three at Shrubs Hill and two at Knowle Hill); two lodge cottages; and a gardener's cottage. In an Affidavit sworn 23 January 1923 in the High Court of Justice Chancery Division before Mr. Justice Eve, re. Challoner's Settled Estate, Rodolph wrote: :'As regards paragraph eight my view is that having regard to the proposed developments there will shortly be little to choose between Dawley and Portnall in respect of destroyed amenities'. Comparison in 2008 of the fate of the land around Dawley, Middlesex, just south of Hillingdon towards Heathrow, with the present state of the Wentworth Estate would show that to have been a miscalculation.
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Camden Park Estate, 1965, modified Read, S., 2004 The Camden Park garden and nursery is historically important as part of the original Macarthur family Camden estate. The garden is significant for its demonstration of the early nineteenth century estate garden design, including the following: The use of a hill site to take advantage of the views; the use of plantings to enframe views; and the planting of trees with ornamental form, demonstrating the influence of the early nineteenth century horticultural movement. The area has historical significance as the original Macarthur nursery renowned for the introduction and propagation of exotic plants in early Australia. Significant features include the following: the area of olive and plumbago shrubbery; the brick edged gravel carriage loop; structured vistas from the house entrance and garden entrance; specimen plants of araucarias and camellias reputed to be the oldest in Australia; well blended later additions of herbaceous beds and rose garden; and ruins of the gardener's lodge, potting sheds and hothouses from the original nursery period.
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Trubshaw's other works include a column commemorating the landing of George IV at Ramsgate, Kent (1821), Ilam Hall, Staffordshire, near Ashbourne (1821–26),Images of England: Ilam Hall and Gardener's Cottage (accessed 16 October 2007) Weston House, Warwickshire (now demolished) and the orangery and lodges of Heath House, Checkley, Staffordshire (1830–1).Orangery, screen wall and potting sheds approx. 200m N. E. of Heath House, North west lodge to Heath House & North Lodge to Heath House (accessed 17 October 2007) He designed several Commissioners' Churches, including St James' Church, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (1833–34), St James' Church, Congleton, Cheshire (1847–48)Pevsner N, Hubbard E. The Buildings of England: Cheshire, pp. 182–3 (Penguin Books; 1971) () and Holy Trinity, Hanley, Staffordshire (1848–49).Commissioners’ Churches (accessed 16 October 2007)Images of England: Church of the Holy Trinity (accessed 16 October 2007) He also rebuilt St Michael's Church, Great Wolford, WarwickshireWarwickshire Communities: History of St Michaels Church Building, Churchyard and Contents (accessed 16 October 2007) and St Lawrence's Church, Chorlton, Staffordshire.
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