Gardens

A rare surviving example of a private Victorian town garden, comprising nearly 3 acres created between 1856-1897 in a former medieval chalk quarry and undergoing restoration by volunteers. Architectural features include a 30ft Gothic fountain, an Italianate terrace, woodland paths and mature trees. It is an idiosyncratic garden, a haven Read more [...]

Gardens with a lake, moat, woodland and an outstanding rose collection with heritage rose exhibitions. Throughout the gardens are thousands of roses especially classic varieties. The Heritage Rose and Twentieth Century Rose Gardens have designs reflecting their date of origin (from the fifteenth century to the present day).

Fairhaven Woodland and Water garden was created by Major Henry Broughton. The hall, woodland, water garden and inner broad were all part of the South Walsham Estate, which he purchased in 1946. In 1963 Major Broughton became the 2nd Lord Fairhaven, receiving the title as his elder brother had no Read more [...]

The gardens are renowned for massive yew hedges and magnificent herbaceous borders and contain a late 18th century orangery; the parkland has a lake, sunken garden and good walks.

A plantsman’s garden of four and a half acres of island beds and borders are separated by wide expanses of grass in which are set specimen trees. The beds contain a wide variety of unusual plants and shrubs of special interest to the knowledgeable gardener. At different times of the Read more [...]