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Mount Stewart House & Garden

Mount Stewart House & Garden
Greyabbey
Newtonwards

BT22 2AD

tel: 02842 788387
fax: 02842 788569

Area: Northern Ireland
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Mount Stewart House & Garden -- Northern Ireland
Visitor Information www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-mountstewart -- email: Helen.Harrison {at} nationaltrust.org.uk
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Mount Stewart House & Garden
Northern Ireland
All details updated* as of: 08/02/2010
Text-Only version here

Disabled information plus mobility and walking aids
 Opening Days and Hours

Lakeside gardens: all year; daily (except 25th/26 Dec); 10am - 6pm
Formal gardens: 13th Mar. - 31st Oct, daily; 10am - 6pm

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

House Open for Viewing: Yes
13th Mar - 31st Oct; Thurs - Tues; 11am - 6pm,
2nd Apr - 11th Apr; daily; 11am - 6pm.
Temple of the Winds: 14th Mar - 31st Oct; Sun; 2pm - 5pm. Admission only by guided tour - timed tickets. Last admission 5pm

National Garden Scheme days: no
Best Times of Year to Visit:
To see:
 Admission Prices
House tour and gardens: £7.09, child £3.54, family £17.54,
Gardens only: £5.36, child £2.63, family £13.36.
 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:
 Garden Features
Neo-classical house and celebrated gardens; One of Northern Ireland's most popular National Trust properties; Celebrated landscaped park: European Garden of Inspiration 2003; Dramatic views across Strangford Lough from the Temple of the Winds; Former home to a fascinating array of political leaders and society figures; Huge George Stubbs painting voted one of Britain's 100 Greatest Works of Art; See the 22 chairs used at the landmark Congress of Vienna, called to redefine Europe's frontiers after the fall of Napoleon.
Grand Garden and Craft Fair 16 & 17 May 09
Mad Hatters Tea Party, 23 & 24th May 09
European Heritage Open Day Sat 12th Sept
English Heritage Garden Grade:
National Collection: Phormium, Libertia, Dianella.
 Description of Garden
Designer: Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry
It would be hard to overestimate the entrancing effect on the visitor of this wonderful garden. Lady Londonderry triumphantly succeeded in creating one of the great gardens of Europe, and one which no visitor to Ireland should miss. From the extravagantly planted Italian Garden near the house, where you may begin your tour, to the 15 acres of rhododendrons through which you return, you will find an almost unbelievable variety of plants, shrubs and trees sheltered to the south by woods and benefiting from the adjacent sea lough, nearness to the Irish Sea and the Gulf Stream.

Lady Londonderry took advice from Sir john Ross of Rosstrevor, Co. Down and from Sir Herbert Maxwell of Montreith, Scotland but she has imbued the place with her own idiosyncratic character and striking sense of humour, as illustrated by the figures on the Dodo Terrace in animal form some of which were politicians, members of her family, members of the armed forces and so on. Nearby is the Mairi Garden illustrating the nursery ryhme, "Mairi, Mairi, quite contrary" in cockle shells, silver bells (campanulas) and Pretty Maids (saxifraga) all in a row.

But the garden is supreme in its variety, not only is there the grand sunken Italian parterre, but also a Spanish parterre beyond it, a tiled garden house, a further Sunken garden to the West of the house based on a design sent to her by Gertrude Jekyll, the famous garden of Irish symbolism and the wooded walks, lawns and the extraordinary burial ground with its white stag to bear you to heaven. In this garden you may feel that you are already there.
 History of Garden
The 3rd Marquess had dug out the lake in the 1840s and planted around it but Lady Londonderry began transforming this garden in the early 1920s from "the darkest, dampest, saddest place" she had ever stayed in to its present splendour. Amongst many other successes she planted the Jubilee Avenue (in reds, whites and blues) in 1936 to mark the Silver Jubilee of George V and Queen Mary. Lady Mairi Bury planted the Memorial Glade in 1959 after her mother's death. The garden is certainly one of the brightest jewels in the National Trust's crown.
 Nearby Northern Ireland Hotels, Facilities & Amenities
Hotels & Accommodation:
The Strangford Arms
Restaurants:
The Bay Restaurant
Inns & Pubs:
Wildfowler, Grey Abbey
Villages / Towns / Sightseeing:
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