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Tylney Hall Hotel
Rotherwick
Hook

RG27 9AZ

tel: 01256-764881
fax: 01256 760224

Area: Hampshire
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Tylney Hall Hotel -- Hampshire
Visitor Information www.tylneyhall.com -- email: sales {at} tylneyhall.com

Tylney Hall Hotel
Hampshire
All details updated* as of: 18/01/2010
Text-Only version here

Disabled information plus mobility and walking aids
 Opening Days and Hours

16th May, 6th June, 4h July 10am - 5pm
Direct line: 01256 745532

Parties / Coaches: No
Groups / Coaches need Appointment: No

House Open for Viewing: No
Only if guests have booked to have lunch or tea after viewing gardens.

National Garden Scheme days: Yes
16th May, 6th June, 4h July 10am - 5pm
Best Times of Year to Visit:
To see:
 Admission Prices
Adults £3 (for NGS); Children free.
 Onsite Facilities
Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
Shop: No
Plants for Sale: Yes
Lunches: No
Teas: Yes
Light Refreshment: Yes
Picnics: No
Dogs Allowed: No
On Lead only: No
Special Events: Yes
Other Facilities:
Guide dogs only. Limited facilities for disabled.
 Garden Features
Water gardens, Boathouse Lake, Orchards, Rose garden, Vista, Italian gardens, Dutch garden and Kitchen garden. English Heritage Garden Grade:
National Collection:
 Description of Garden
Designer: Seldon Wornum
These historic gardens, influenced by Gertrude Jekyll, now surround a luxury hotel but can be visited on Garden Open Days. Visitors can then wander in the Italian Garden, which has been carefully restored after a tennis court was built over it! The original design by Seldon Wornum can now be seen. The garden also affords views of the lake and its boathouse bridge.

Visitors may be drawn from here to the Rose Gardens and Azalea Garden in which orchids bloom in June. The view across the lawns from here is framed by Giant Redwoods and takes in a Victorian teahouse and the house. Closer to the hotel, are the Dutch Gardens, which, sadly, are missing much of their original statuary.

Greenhouses designed by Weir Schultz and kitchen gardens as well as a productive orchard, can also be visited. The Water Gardens might well, however, prove the highlight of a visit, boasting cascades, a woodland glade in which bamboos and rhododendrons thrive, and a lower lake. The Schultz Arch offers views of much of these.
 History of Garden
Whilst there is some debate, it is recorded that a mansion house has existed on this site since 1561, although it is known that the first Tylney Hall was built about 1700. That building was demolished by William Pole-Long-Wellesley, later the 5th Earl of Mornington who had inherited it, either for the price of the materials, or in order to sell the timber on the estate. A possible explanation is that by the terms of the Trust, timber could not be felled within sight of the house, so he pulled it down. Timber, particularly in Hampshire, relatively close to the naval Dockyards at Portsmouth, was then at a premium.

The Hall as it now stands was built at the end of the 19th century under the supervision of Sir Lionel Phillips. It has served in a variety of roles since, including a Hospital and an ASC base for mules in the First World War and in the Second World War, the headquarters of Clan Line Steamers Ltd., the then famous steamship company owned by Lord Rotherwick, who had bought the Hall in 1919. It became a school in 1948, until it closed in 1984. It then re-opened as a hotel, after extensive re-furbishment, the following year. It is now one of a string of luxury hotels owned by Elite Hotels.
 Nearby Hampshire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities
Hotels & Accommodation:
In hotel
Restaurants:
Oak Room Restaurant in Hotel
Inns & Pubs:
Coach and Horses, Rotherwick
The Leather Bottle, Mattingly
The New Inn, Heckfield
Villages / Towns / Sightseeing:
Rotherwick
Odiham has antique shops and canal.
Farnham traditional market town
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