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    Newark Park in pictures

    The east front of Newark Park, Gloucestershire

    © National Trust / Michael Claydon

    The 16th-century east elevation and east walled garden. The east front remains virtually unaltered from the original hunting lodge, the door case is said to be the earliest renaissance architecture in Gloucestershire. The east garden was added in the 1970’s.

    The east window at Newark Park, Gloucestershire

    © National Trust / Mike Henton

    18th-century painted glass added to the house by the Clutterbuck family who acquired the estate in 1790. The glass is in the great window on the east side of the house. The warm colours are reflected in the house adding warmth to the first floor stairway.

    The terrace garden at Newark Park, Gloucestershire

    © National Trust / Michael Claydon

    The herbaceous border and Peafowl house on the south terrace, both were added in the 1970’s.

    Cyclamen growing at Newark Park, Gloucestershire

    © National Trust / Michael Claydon

    The property has wonderful displays of cyclamen in the spring and autumn, shown are the autumn variety, 'Cyclamen hederifolium'. The cyclamen were planted at the end of the 19th century.

    The lake at Newark Park, Gloucestershire

    © National Trust / Michael Claydon

    The lake garden – a walled garden situated below the house, the lake used to supply the household with fish, the building in the distance is a 18th-century summerhouse which has recently been restored.

    A view from Newark Park, Gloucestershire

    © National Trust / Mike Henton

    The south elevation as seen from the old carriage drive (now a permitted bridle path) the south front of the house was altered to its present form in the 18th century to overlook the newly created south deer park.

    Newark Park in the snow

    © National Trust / Mike Henton

    The sham castle – originally built in the 18th century as an eye catcher in the landscape, the building was rebuilt in the 1970’s.

    The weather vane at Newark Park, Gloucestershire

    © National Trust / Michael Claydon

    The 16th-century dragon weathervane that lives on the mansion roof. It is thought that the weathervane was a tribute to the Tudor Dynasty by the builder of the 16th-century hunting lodge, Sir Nicholas Poyntz.

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