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Audley End

Audley End
Saffron Walden


CB11 4JF

tel: 01799 522 842
fax: 01799 521276

Area: Essex
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Audley End -- Essex
Visitor Information www.english-heritage.org.uk -- email: linda.dyer {at} english-heritage.org.uk
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Audley End
Essex
All details updated* as of: 01/04/2009
Text-Only version here

Disabled information plus mobility and walking aids
 Opening Days and Hours

1st Apr - 30th Sept; Wed - Sun; 10am - 6pm;
1st Oct - 1st Nov; Wed - Sun; 10am - 5pm;
2nd Nov - 20th Dec; Sat & Sun; 10am - 4pm
21st Dec - 31st Jan 2010; closed
1st Feb - 14th Feb; Sat & Sun; 10am - 4pm
15th Feb - 28th Feb; Wed - Sun; 10am - 4pm
1st Mar - 31st Mar; Wed - Sun; 10am - 5pm

Parties / Coaches: Yes
Groups / Coaches need Appointment: Yes
Pre-booked guided tours 10am - noon
extra fee payable

House Open for Viewing: Yes
1st Apr - 30th Sept; Wed - Sun & BHs; 11am - 5pm (closes 2.30pm Sat)
1st - 1st Nov; Wed - Sun; 11am - 4pm. Closed 2nd Nov - 31st Mar (except 21/22nd & 28/29th Nov, and 5/6th, 12/13th & 19/20th Dec - Festive Fun Weekends. Last entry 1 hour before closing
Guided tours: 1st Apr - 30th Apr; Wed - Sun (except Easter)
1st May - 17th July; Wed - Fri (except 4th & 27-29th May)
1st Sept - 23rd Oct; Wed - Sun
View this house at StatelyHomes.com

National Garden Scheme days: no
Best Times of Year to Visit:
June - July
To see:
Parterre and Kitchen Garden
 Admission Prices
House & Gardens. Adult £10.70; Child £5.40; Concessions £9.10; Family £26.80 (2 adults + 3 children)
Service Wing & Gardens: Adult £7.70 Child £3.90(under 5s free); Concessions £6.50; Family £19.30. (not available on event days)
 Onsite Facilities
Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
Shop: Yes
Plants for Sale: Yes
Lunches: Yes
Teas: Yes
Light Refreshment: Yes
Picnics: Yes
Dogs Allowed: Yes
On Lead only: Yes
Special Events: Yes
Other Facilities:
7th - 9th Apr; Craft and Food Show
5th - 7th May; Garden Show
25th - 27th Aug; Country Show
 Garden Features
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown landscape, Adam bridge, 1830's parterre, organic walled kitchen garden
Jacobean House with Robert Adam rooms, Canalettos etc.
Archaeologically surveyed & restores Fish Hatchery and Historic kitchen with displays of utensils
English Heritage Garden Grade: I
National Collection:
 Description of Garden
Designer: 'Capability' Brown
Beautiful 'Capability' Brown designed landscape with a parterre, now restored, planted on the south side of the house in the 1830's. The River Cam winds through the grounds and is used to create a cascade, a pond garden and is crossed by a lovely Robert Adam designed bridge and by a Palladian Tea House. Other spectacular monuments include a "Temple of Concord" built to celebrate George III's (temporary) recovery from madness and several other follies designed and sited to draw the eye down a particular vista. The organic kitchen garden, a joint venture between between English Heritage and the Henry Doubleday Research Organisation, was opened in 2000 by Prince Charles and is laid out in a huge area surrounded by old brick walls. The 16th century brick stables to the south of it are older and more attractive than the house itself. The Mount garden, originally designed to allow guests at the house to promenade in the garden, viewing it from a height, is also scheduled to be restored.
 History of Garden
This is an ancient site which was originally owned by a Benedictine Abbey. An enormous house, with expansive formal gardens, was built for Thomas Howard, the admiral who commanded the British fleet against the Armada and was later created Earl of Suffolk. It was acquired by Charles II in 1669, James I having previously described it as "too large for a King, but might do for a Lord Treasurer!". The vast wings on the house, which marched towards the River Cam, were pulled down after Sir John Griffin Griffin (later 1st Lord Braybrooke) bought the property in the mid-18th century. He favoured a more naturalistic approach and commissioned 'Capability Brown' to discard the formal rectangular layout and landscape the gardens and park very much as it appears today. The 3rd Lord Braybrooke planted the parterre in the 1830's. The property was acquired by English Heritage after WWII.
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Restaurants:
Inns & Pubs:
Axe & Compasses, Arkesden
Cricketers, Clavering
Villages / Towns / Sightseeing:
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