Upcoming Events

Tour Overview Hear a talk by the owner, Timothy Clark, take a guided tour of the garden, and listen to a recital on an early family square piano followed by tea and cakes. The tour does not include the house, but the piano recital takes place indoors and tea is served inside, so visitors see two of the ground floor rooms. March tour features early hellebore hybrids, Tudor primroses and  Edwardian hyacinths; April tour features crown imperials, daffodils and Tudor primroses;…

Tour Overview Guided tour of ground floor and orangery. Guided tour through the garden by owner. Homemade cream tea on the lawn or in the orangery following the tour. Tour duration 2.5 hours Tour prices £18.00 per person. Refreshments Cream tea (coffee if preferred). Access notes 5 steps to be climbed to enter house, no wheelchair access in the house. There is wheelchair access to the garden, although the wheelchair would have to be pushed over a lawn and there are…

The tour of the Hall begins in the splendid entrance hall with its impressive staircase, creating a warm welcome for guests. The large reception hall leads through to beautifully decorated drawing and dining rooms, the grand staircase leading to the seven spacious and tastefully furnished bedrooms.  The tour includes all these rooms together with kitchen and former dairy.  The Hall has been completely refurbished recently with central heating, re-wiring and plumbing and visitors will learn what can be done to…

Harrogate Spring Flower Show is the first big event in the gardening calendar, welcoming the new growing season with a spectacular celebration of the very best in horticulture. Rated Britain’s top gardening event by Which?, this prestigious event will run from 23 – 26 April 2020, featuring beautiful show gardens, great shopping, live entertainment and the biggest exhibition by florists and flower arrangers in the country.

Tour Overview Take a tour of all the rooms on the ground floor, with descriptions of how the house has been adapted over the years. The basement has interesting remnants of the original front door and stairs that would have taken up the whole of the central hall and can be seen on request. A tour of the newly renovated walled garden can be arranged at a separate cost. Tour duration 2 hours Tour prices £20.00 per person. Refreshments Tea…

Tour Overview Go on a tour of the private North Wing of Coughton Court, the home of the family, and explore their fine, award-winning gardens. Tour duration 2.5 hours Tour prices £15.00 per person Refreshments Tea, coffee and cakes. Evening tours include wine. Access notes There is wheelchair access to all the property including a stairlift to the first floor. Special restrictions No dogs permitted.

Goadby Marwood Hall is a 17th-century Grade II* house next to a beautiful 13th-century church in a tiny village just north of Melton Mowbray. In 1750 a new Palladian-style south wing was built. The 180-acre estate was a subsidiary holding of the Duke of Rutland and often the residence of members of his family. In 2000 it was inherited by Vicky Westropp. She and her husband have worked tirelessly, restoring the neglected house and redesigning the garden, based on 18th-century…

Goldsborough Hall, built in the 1620s, is  renowned for its Jacobean architecture and magnificent Robert Adam interiors. The privately owned stately home stands in its own beautifully landscaped grounds with unspoilt elevated views over its historic gardens. Built for Sir Richard Hutton, the acting Lord Chief Justice, the hall was later remodelled in the 1750s by the eminent architects Robert Adam and John Carr of York. The house came to fame in the 1920s as the former residence of HRH…