Introduction
Yatton Court is a house of about 1780 on a older site. The house overlooks a park created in the second half of the 18th century, with a bridge over a lake. There is a kitchen garden. The layout replaced a formal garden, with some of the older planting included in the new design.
- Visitor Access, Directions & Contacts
Directions
Six miles north-west of Leominster via the A44 and the A4110.
- History
In about 1780 John Woodhouse rebuilt the house at Yatton Court, a brick classical house replacing the older half-timbered building.
Before this improvements had begun in the grounds. The older garden of formal enclosures and regular planting was replaced by an extensive landscape park. A lake was formed by damming local watercourses and an ornamental bridge constructed to carry the main road across it. When this was washed away in the flood of 1795, a new two-arched bridge was built to replace it.
Ornamental groves of trees were planted in the park, and a new kitchen garden was laid out.
Some planting from the earlier layout, such as avenues and rows of holly and yew, were retained in the new scheme.
Some of the planting for the new design was supplied by the London nurseryman David Lewis.
Period
- 18th Century
- Late 18th Century
- Associated People
- Features & Designations
Features
- Kitchen Garden
- Gate Lodge
- Ornamental Bridge
- Key Information
Type
Park
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
Period
18th Century
Survival
Extant
Civil Parish
Aymestrey
- References