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Garden Name: Monk's House
Last Modified: 09/02/2010
Garden ID: 0188

pic: 0188_monksHouse.jpg

Owner: National Trust
Address:
Rodmell
Lewes

Postcode: BN7 3HF
County: East Sussex

tel: 01323 870001
fax: 01892 890110
website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/scripts/nthandbook.dll?PROPERTYID=108
email: monkshouse {at} nationaltrust.org.uk

Features: 
Country retreat of the novelist Virginia Woolf; Home of Leonard and Virginia Woolf until 1969; Rooms reflect life and times of literary circle in which they moved; Extracts from Virginia's diaries and photographs on display

English Heritage Grade:


Opening Times:
3rd Apr - 30th Oct; Wed & Sat; 2pm - 5:30pm
Last admission 30mins before closing

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National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: No
Comments: 

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: 

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments: Groups must book 4 weeks in advance 

House Open for Viewing: Yes
Comments: 

Admission Prices:
Adult £4, child £2, family £10.

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

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Designer: 
Description of Garden:
A small white weather-boarded house, the home of Leonard & Virginia Woolf, until Leonard's death in 1969. The rooms reflect the life and times of the literary circle in the which they moved. The garden has four contrasting sections - formal walled area, orchard, open lawn and Kitchen garden. "Our orchard is the very place to sit and talk for hours in". Virginia wrote in her diary. A typical Sussex flint church lies at the bottom of the garden.


History: 
Bought by the Woolfs in 1919 as a country retreat.

Local Inns: 
Juggs, Kingston near Lewes

Accomodation: 
Nightingales, Lewes

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