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Owner: National Trust Address: Bolham Tiverton Postcode: EX16 7RQ County: Devon tel: 01884-254665 fax: website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk email: knightshayes //at// nationaltrust.org.uk English Heritage Grade: II* Opening Times: NOTE for 2012: Please check with garden owners or their website to confirm current dates open http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk 19th Feb - 27th Feb; Sat - Thurs; 11am - 4pm 3rd Mar - 6th Mar; Thurs - Sun; 11am - 4pm 12th Mar - 30th Oct; daily; 11am - 5pm 3rd Nov - 18th Dec; Thurs - Sun; 11am - 4pm 19th Dec - 22nd Dec; Mon - Thurs; 11am - 3pm 26th Dec - 31st Dec; Mon - Sat; 11am - 3pm Whole property closed 24 and 25 December. Best Times of Year to Visit: October To see: Autumn colours National Collection: National Garden Scheme days: Yes Comments: Parties / Coaches: Yes Comments: Viewing by Appointment: Yes Comments: House Open for Viewing: Yes Comments: 5th Mar - 6 Marth; Sat & Sun; 11am - 4pm 12th Mar - 30th Oct; Sat - Thurs; 11am - 5pm 5th Nov - 18th Dec ; Sat & Sun; 11am - 4pm 26th Dec - 31st Dec; Mon - Thurs & Sat; 11am - 3pm House closed Fridays (excluding Good Friday); limited access in February, November and December (19th to 22nd and 26th to 31st December - Great Hall and Smoking Room only open); house closed 11th December. Admission Prices: Gift Aid Admission (Standard Admission prices in brackets) House, garden and parkland: adult £9 (£8.05), child £4.50 (£4), family £22.50 (£20.40), family (1 adult) £14 (£12.70). Garden and parkland: adult £7.15 (£6.50), child £3.65 (£3.30). Reduced admission for house, garden and parkland ticket in November and December Parking: Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes Shop: Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes Teas: Yes Refreshments: Yes Picnics: Yes Dogs allowed: No Only on Lead: No Events: Yes Other Facilities: Dogs in woodland walks on lead only. Guide dogs in stables. Only ground floor of House accessible to disabled. Features: Victorian country house with richly decorated interiors and garden with outstanding plant collection; Designed by the eccentric William Burges; Splendid Romantic and Gothic-style interiors; Celebrated gardens with lily pools, floral borders, amusing topiary and walled kitchen garden; Rare shrubs and specimen trees give vivid autumn colours; Play the pianos; Newly restored and fully productive walled kitchen garden Designer: Edward Kemp Description of Garden: This garden has been described as embodying 'all that is best in modern gardening' which includes formal gardens, summer flowering borders, drifts of spring bulbs, topiary, and a "garden in the wood" bursting with rare trees and shrubs underplanted with woodland bulbs and herbaceous plants. The gardens nearest the house are the formal areas: terraces, a paved garden, and amusing topiary cut in the yew hedge and the pool garden, with its round pond overlooked by a Victorian sculpture of a bather and a Weeping Silver Pear Tree. Knightshayes' most famous planting is the "Garden in the Wood". Camellia and azalea are underplanted with geranium, hellebore, trillium and pulmonaria. Magical glades display tree magnolia and rhododendron and an arboretum of ornamental trees such as clethra, aralia and acer. The walled kitchen garden (near the stables) being restored as an exemplar of modern organic gardening practice. History: Originally designed by the celebrated landscaper Edward Kemp in the 1870s, the garden owes much to Sir John and Lady Heathcoat-Amory, who gave Knightshayes to the National Trust in 1972. The house was designed by William Burges and built between 1869 and 1874. Local Inns: Hartnoll hotel, Bolham Accomodation: Lower Collipriest Farm, Tiverton Restaurants: Village/Town/Sightseeing: Tiverton Grand Western Canal Museum Bickleigh Mill