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Beacon Hill House

Introduction

The garden is in a sheltered site bounded by sandstone walls and a holly hedge. Features include a lodge and a rustic gateway leading to rockery area planted with ferns.

Features & Designations

Features

  • Kitchen Garden
  • Herbaceous Border
  • Tree Feature
  • Description: There is a mature wood, mostly deciduous (including ash, oak, beech and sycamore). There are also some conifers and Scots Pine. A few fruit trees are sited on periphery.
  • Potager
  • Description: There is a cottage or vegetable garden to the south-west. This may be new.
  • Planting
  • Description: There is a huge boulder bank crammed with ferns and bracken.
  • Gateway
  • Description: Rustic gateway.
  • Rockery
  • Wall
  • Description: Sandstone wall
  • Hedge
  • Description: Holly hedge
Key Information

Type

Garden

Purpose

Ornamental

Principal Building

Domestic / Residential

Survival

Extant

Civil Parish

Nesfield with

References

Contributors

  • Nidderdale AONB Historic Parks and Gardens project