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Knightshayes Court

Knightshayes Court
Bolham
Tiverton

EX16 7RQ

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Area: Devon
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Knightshayes Court -- Devon
Visitor Information www.nationaltrust.org.uk -- email: knightshayes {at} nationaltrust.org.uk
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Knightshayes Court
Devon
All details updated* as of: 28/01/2010
Text-Only version here

Disabled information plus mobility and walking aids
 Opening Days and Hours

Saturday 13 - Sunday 21 February, 11am-4pm
Saturday 27 February - Sunday 7 March, weekends only, 11am-4pm
Saturday 13 March - Sunday 31 October, 11am-5pm
Saturday 4 - Sunday 19 December, weekends only, 11am-3pm
House closed Fridays (but open Good Friday)
Limited access in December (house closed Sunday 12 December for an event)

Parties / Coaches: Yes
Groups / Coaches need Appointment: Yes

House Open for Viewing: Yes
Saturday 13 - Sunday 21 February, 11am-4pm
Saturday 27 February - Sunday 7 March, weekends only, 11am-4pm
Saturday 13 March - Sunday 31 October, 11am-5pm
Saturday 4 - Sunday 19 December, weekends only, 11am-3pm
House closed Fridays (but open Good Friday)
Limited access in December (house closed Sunday 12 December for an event)


View this house at StatelyHomes.com

National Garden Scheme days: Yes
Best Times of Year to Visit:
October
To see:
Autumn colours
 Admission Prices
House, gardens & parkland: Adult £7.80, Child £3.90, Family (2A + 3C) £19.50, One Adult family £11.70
Groups of 15 or more: Adult £7.25, Child £3.60
Gardens & parkland: Adult £6.20, Child £3.10
Groups of 15 or more: Adult £5.75, Child £2.70
 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: No
On Lead only: No
Special Events: Yes
Other Facilities:
Dogs in woodland walks on lead only. Guide dogs in stables. Only ground floor of House accessible to disabled.
 Garden Features
Victorian country house with richly decorated interiors and garden with outstanding plant collection; Designed by the eccentric William Burges; Splendid Romantic and Gothic-style interiors; Celebrated gardens with lily pools, floral borders, amusing topiary and walled kitchen garden; Rare shrubs and specimen trees give vivid autumn colours; Play the pianos; Newly restored and fully productive walled kitchen garden English Heritage Garden Grade: II*
National Collection:
 Description of Garden
Designer: Edward Kemp
This garden has been described as embodying 'all that is best in modern gardening' which includes formal gardens, summer flowering borders, drifts of spring bulbs, topiary, and a "garden in the wood" bursting with rare trees and shrubs underplanted with woodland bulbs and herbaceous plants. The gardens nearest the house are the formal areas: terraces, a paved garden, and amusing topiary cut in the yew hedge and the pool garden, with its round pond overlooked by a Victorian sculpture of a bather and a Weeping Silver Pear Tree.

Knightshayes' most famous planting is the "Garden in the Wood". Camellia and azalea are underplanted with geranium, hellebore, trillium and pulmonaria. Magical glades display tree magnolia and rhododendron and an arboretum of ornamental trees such as clethra, aralia and acer. The walled kitchen garden (near the stables) being restored as an exemplar of modern organic gardening practice.
 History of Garden
Originally designed by the celebrated landscaper Edward Kemp in the 1870s, the garden owes much to Sir John and Lady Heathcoat-Amory, who gave Knightshayes to the National Trust in 1972. The house was designed by William Burges and built between 1869 and 1874.
 Nearby Devon Hotels, Facilities & Amenities
Hotels & Accommodation:
Lower Collipriest Farm, Tiverton
Restaurants:
Inns & Pubs:
Hartnoll hotel, Bolham
Villages / Towns / Sightseeing:
Tiverton
Grand Western Canal
Museum
Bickleigh Mill
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