A long-term, and complete redesign of the gardens belonging to an Arts and Crafts house in the heart of Walberswick.  Having embarked upon a sensitive renovation of the property, our clients were keen to begin laying out the gardens contemporaneously. 

Apart from the existing orchard, and an old hornbeam hedge that divided the plot in two, we were gifted a blank canvas on which to design a contemporary-feeling Arts and Crafts garden. The decision to relocate the main vehicular entrance to the property was made after careful consideration. A new driveway has been installed to complement the new layout.  Aesthetic form and functional use have dictated its route.

The garden’s main axis leads the eye from the drawing room across the garden to restored period gates.  From the south-facing terrace, a handsome set of semi-circular York Stone steps lead up to the main lawn: embraced by two semi-circular herbaceous borders.  

The axis, punctuated throughout by a leitmotif of Yew domes, then passes through the shrubbery, under a portal in the pleached hornbeam hedge and across the orchard, which is laid out in geometric blocks of wildflower meadow and mown paths. A glasshouse and potager are screened by deep plantations of ornamental grasses.

In phase two, the east terrace will overlook the sunken garden: laid to lawn and flanked by deep borders.  A loggia will face the house.  The site of the existing swimming pool has been separated from the sunken garden with an oak pergola and transformed into a dry garden with formal fastigiate hornbeam accents.