Causeway Cottage secluded garden

Garden is very picturesque, described by one garden designer as a “fairy-tale” garden. From the kitchen, it slopes upward and is nearly feet by 36ft wide maximum.

Up two steps from the kitchen door to a patio of ancient flags with a rockery beyond and steps through it to the lawn. An old stone flagged path curls up the garden, through a pergola on the left, then sweeping to the right to reach a 10ft square study hidden in a nook at the end under an ancient apple tree.

Garden is east to west, receiving sunlight all day long, and is very private, though in centre of village, because elevated with a 6 ft high fence surround and heavily shrubbed with bushes and trees. The top left corner has quarter-octagonal summerhouse catching the last rays of evening sun.

The pergola has clematis, climbing roses, a young vine, a potato-vine and wisteria growing though into the trees behind. On this north side the garden is elevated 15 feet above the street level. On south and east sides, it is level with neighbouring gardens.

Numerous rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias and acers line the southern side of the garden,  with clematis climbing through the trees and bushes. The lawn down the centre curves with double semi-circular beds of bushes on the southern side.
There is a shaded seat here, and another under the pergola facing it on the north side. Another wrought iron and wood seat at far eastern end of garden looks back towards the house.

At the front, on the left side of the house, a wrought-iron gate leads up steep steps to inner gate and a brick pathway leading up the left side of the patio and rockery then curling up slope to join main path before reaching garden shed on left side with trellises on all walls with a variety of clematis.


(For pictures of interior, see agent’s website. Url at top)

To see a slideshow of the garden and its plants click link:

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The view towards this row of houses from the road is much photographed. The triangular green slopes sharply upwards to right from the road junction, with three medieval and, at the top, one Georgian house, leading to the church whose steeple protrudes over the rooftops.