An estate in miniature
Mrs Slaney aspired to have a home, garden and estate that had all the essential features of the much larger grand estates of the time, but much smaller in scale. She added a lodge at the top of the drive, a coach house and stables, kennels, glasshouses and an impressive conservatory.
The five acre garden today is half of its original size yet it retains all of the key of a Victorian garden and grounds such as a paddock, orchard, and formal rose garden as well as herbaceous borders.
While you are here you can challenge friends and family to a game of croquet on the lawn, or why not try other favourite Victorian pastimes of quoits or skittles. The lawn is a great place to set up a picnic and while away an afternoon.
Conserving the conservatory