Malverleys

The present mansion, built around 1870, is a Victorian building of two-storeys and two wings constructed of pale brick with a slate roof in the Italian style. The house is located east of the Conservation Area, at the western edge of the park. It lies on a narrow terrace surrounded by an almost circular embankment, enclosing a lawn (clearly visible in the aerial photgraphs). It faces south east, overlooking the parkland of about 60 acres. To the south is a small gate lodge of matching pale brick.

The parkland has 2 large copses of woodland trees - Garvards Copse and Penton's Copse, and the Fullers Lane boundary is marked with a band of mature trees, ending in a dell with a small pond (described as a fernery in the earlier part of the 20th century).

The high wall of the kitchen garden defines the western boundary of the estate - an important feature of the East End hamlet streetscape. A large conservatory overlooks the kitchen garden at its northern end. Lodges are located on Fullers Lane, and on the lane leading to Hollington, connected at each end by sweeping drives to the main entrance front. Footpaths connect the house and the walled garden and garden features. An oval ‘knot' garden lies just Inside the northern entrance, at the north west front of the house enclosed by the mature trees bounding Fuller's Lane. This garden appears on the 1874 map but not on subsequent ones, although it is visible on recent aerial photographs. (see Appendix 2). A circular path links the walled gardens, parkland and the large lake and smaller pond at the western end of Horse Close Coppice. (S of 430 on Tithe Map & 569 on the 1872 map) A drive or path leads from the main drive, through the E Park Copse and Horse Close Coppice.

Mature trees - remnants of larger scale plantings - are scattered throughout the parkland, and reinforced with some new planting. A small pond lies between the lodge and the old house, roughly where one was shown in the 1837 Tithe Map, plus an additional small pond north of the lake in the HC coppice. These ponds along with field and copse boundaries are important historical markers in a landscape relatively unchanged since the late 18th century.

Historic features known to be present:

BOWLING GREEN

CONSERVATORY

FERNERY (glasshouse)

FISHPOND

GARDEN TERRACE

GATE PIER

HA HA

HERB GARDEN

HERBACEOUS BORDER

KITCHEN GARDEN

LAKE

PARKLAND

ORNAMENTAL LAKE

PONDS

TERRACE

OVAL ‘KNOT ‘ GARDEN

WALLED GARDEN

WILDERNESS

WOODLAND GARDEN

YEW HEDGES

EMBANKMENT PONDS

Features recorded in archive (unconfirmed)

Statue

Sunken Garden

Fernery

East Woodhay Cricket Club has its headquarters at Malverleys

Significance:

The park retains the elements of a 19th century landscape - open parkland, lake and pond walled kitchen gardens and conservatory, small wilderness, and mature trees, with the main phase of development laid out between 1820 and 1900 where much of this landscape survives to reflect the original design.

Landscape Planning Status:

Malverleys estate lies within the East End Conservation Area

An Area of Archaeological Potential (AAP) exists within the settlement of East End.

AONB Yes

SSSI Yes

SINC Yes

TPO etc Ancient Woodland Inventory Map 17: Garvards Copse and Penton's Copse both described as Ancient Semi-natural Woodland

Research: EM Consultants for Basingstoke & Deane:September 2009

Detailed description contributed by Hampshire Gardens Trust 13/04/2015