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Garden Name: Knightshayes Court
Last Modified: 28/01/2010
Garden ID: 0236

pic: 0236_Knightshayes.jpg

Owner: National Trust
Address:
Bolham
Tiverton

Postcode: EX16 7RQ
County: Devon

tel: 01884-254665
fax: 
website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk
email: knightshayes {at} nationaltrust.org.uk

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 Grade:
II*

Opening Times:
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)


Best Times of Year to Visit: 
October

To see: 
Autumn colours

National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: Yes
Comments: 

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: 

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments:  

House Open for Viewing: Yes
Comments: 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)


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

Parking: Yes
Lavatories: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
Shop: Yes
Plants for Sale: Yes
Lunches: Yes
Teas: Yes
Refreshments: Yes
Picnics: Yes
Dogs allowed: No
Only on Lead: No
Events: Yes

Other Facilities:
Dogs in woodland walks on lead only. Guide dogs in stables. Only ground floor of House accessible to disabled.


Designer: Edward Kemp
Description of Garden:
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: 
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.

Local Inns: 
Hartnoll hotel, Bolham

Accomodation: 
Lower Collipriest Farm, Tiverton

Restaurants: 


Village/Town/Sightseeing: 
Tiverton
Grand Western Canal
Museum
Bickleigh Mill