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Snowshill Manor tel: 01386-852410 Area: Gloucestershire |
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| Visitor Information | www.nationaltrust.org.uk | ||||||||||||
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| Snowshill Manor Gloucestershire All details updated* as of: 08/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||||
19 Mar - 2 Nov 08, 11 - 5:30, Wed - Sun |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes by written appointment only. |
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House
Open for Viewing: Yes |
National
Garden Scheme days: Yes |
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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||||
| £7.30) child £3.70, family £18.60. Groups £7. Garden, restaurant/shop only: £4, child £2, family £10. Groups £3.70. Visitors arriving by bicycle or on foot offered a voucher redeemable at Snowshill NT shop or tea-room |
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| 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 |
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| Other
Facilities: Car park 500 yds from Manor, motorised buggy available. |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||||
| Cotswold manor house with eclectic collection and Arts & Crafts-style garden; Collection of craftsmanship and design from across the globe; The home of the life's work of eccentric architect, artist and craftsman Charles Paget Wade; Traditional golden-yellow Cotswold Manor house set in a delightful village above the Vale of Evesham; Terraced hillside garden designed as a series of rooms and run on organic principles | English Heritage Garden Grade: | ||||||||||||
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| Description of Garden | Designer:
Charles Wade and M. H. Baillie-Scott |
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| An extraordinary, even unique, house and garden expressing the philosophy of Charles Wade and the Arts & Crafts movement even down to the exact shade of dark blue he favoured for the garden furniture to blend and contrast with the greens of the garden and mellow tones of the Cotswold stone. You will not find any orange coloured plants here. The garden is in a series of 'outdoor rooms', but according to Wade, the architect, it is an extension of the house and contains a variety of architectural objects all carefully designed to blend with, and enhance the effect. In the wider scene the garden fits well into the Cotswold landscape, views of which from many parts of the garden cleverly counterbalance the enclosed effect of the compartments. | |||||||||||||
| History of Garden | |||||||||||||
| Charles Wade bought Snowshill Manor in 1919 as an ideal base in the favoured Cotswolds to demonstrate his passion for the Arts & Crafts philosophy. He was an architect, artist and woodworker and transformed both the Manor and the garden he created there into an extraordinary expression of his ideals. Wade commissioned a design by M. H. Baillie-Scott and created a series of 'rooms' in the style of Hidcote. Following its acquisition of the property, the National Trust has maintained the house and garden in its original style, even using organic principles in the garden. | |||||||||||||
| Nearby Gloucestershire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Churchill Arms, Paxford |
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| Inns & Pubs: Crown & Trumpet, Broadway Baker's Arms, Broad Campden Snowshill Arms |
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