Blackdown Hill (hotel) garden, Blackdown, Warwick
Villa now hotel. Gardens have late C19th character with drive cut through rock and crossed by timber bridge, summerhouse, terrace, mixed planting. Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie. Lovie suggests Listed Building Status for house and possibly garden features such as summer house.
<1 > 2 Blackdown Hill (now Blackdown Hotel), Sandy Lane, Blackdown, Warwick.
Lovie reports this as a villa adjacent to the river Avon. E stands on high ground and the drive passes through a rocky ravine. Terraces, topiary, box edging, mixed planting with specimen trees on lawns, paddock.
At time of Lovie’s survey (1996/7) he noted that the gardens had a late c19th character. Lodge, timber bridge over drive and summerhouse house survive. Much of planting immediately adjacent to house has been lost.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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