The Project - A large paved garden Terrace
This was an exciting project to be involved with.
The house is a large Victorian vicarage and although it has fantastic architectural qualities with beautiful large windows and very elegant proportions;
The main front façade of the building had nothing to link it in to its location, it just felt like it had been dropped in the middle of a field.
The owners really wanted to create a garden that included an area that would work as both an outdoor entertaining space and quiet place to sit and enjoy the outdoors. It needed to include lots of space for planting and most importantly tie the house to its location and make the most of the fabulous views.
The Design
The house has a grand feel and the clients wanted to accentuate this and at the same time create a terrace that felt like it was part of the original build and not added at a later date.
We decided to work from the level of the main entrance to the side of the house, working this level round to the front creating a raised terrace with large planting areas built into it and around it at different heights.
We added a low wall at the front that is the perfect height to sit on, several wide stairways leading to different parts of the garden and more planters below the terrace to add visual interest.
We designed the whole structure to be clad in stone from an old garden wall that had sadly fallen down many years earlier which we were so lucky to have as it tied the new into the old perfectly. The builders did an amazing job matching the new stonework to the original stonework of the house and surrounding buildings.
We paved the whole area with large limestone paving which was continued round to the main entrance of the property linking the different parts of the house and garden together for the first time.
THE BUILD
I am really excited to see how this garden changes as the planting goes in next spring and how it progresses over the next few years as the planting develops and the whole terrace settles into its space.
UPDATE
Pictures below show the garden at the end of the first year.
