Downland House

A grand symmetrical house which required a bold and geometric design. The North garden is large and formal in design to reflect the grandeur of the house. The use of box and yew in the form of hedging and topiary gives a strong structural base to the design with movement, softness and seasonal variety provided by single stemmed clipped malus trees, cornus, roses, grasses and perennials. The garden on the East of the house is simple and stately with a formal lawn lined with large box pleached hornbeams leading to curved Portland stone steps up to a grass meadow dissected by a wide mown grass path which leads the eye to the 19th century folly on the Downs beyond.