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Garden Name: Millgate House
Last Modified: 13/01/2011
Garden ID: 0090

pic: 0090_Millgatehouse.jpg

Owner: Austin Lynch and Tim Culkin
Address:
Richmond


Postcode: DL10 4JN
County: Yorkshire

tel: 01748-823751
fax: 01748-850701
website: www.millgatehouse.com
email: oztim {at} millgatehouse.demon.co.uk

Features: 
Hostas, ferns, pots, clematis and snowdrops.
Winner of Daily Mail/RHS National Garden Competition 2005.
Featured in BBC Gardener's World 2005
The garden at Millgate House won the first National Royal Horticultural Society/ Daily Mail National Garden Competition out of 3200 entries.

English Heritage Grade:


Opening Times:
1st Apr - 21st Oct; daily; 10am - 5pm.
Contact on 07738298721 by text only when owners are in Italy. New mobile from 13th Apr. - 07799880893

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
June & July

To see: 
Roses, hostas, clematis

National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: Yes
Comments: 

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: 

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments: end Oct - April 2010 by appointment only 

House Open for Viewing: Yes
Comments: By appointment

Admission Prices:
£2. Garden guide £1. 
RHS members free with Membership Card.

Parking: Yes
Lavatories: No
Disabled Access: No
Shop: No
Plants for Sale: No
Lunches: No
Teas: No
Refreshments: No
Picnics: No
Dogs allowed: No
Only on Lead: No
Events: Yes

Other Facilities:
RHS Associate Garden.
B&B at Millgate House or self-catering Coach House.


Designer: 
Description of Garden:
Behind the facade of a lovely Georgian town house in the centre of Richmond lies a small but beautiful plantsman's garden with views over the River Swale, and its waterfalls, to the Cleveland Hills beyond. This garden won the Royal Horticultural/Daily Mail National Garden Award in 1995 and has been firmly in the public eye ever since. It has been described by Stephen Lacey as "one of the lovliest shrub rose gardens in Britain". One of its most endearing characteristics is that it is still well worth visiting through to the late autumn. Clever design means that an extraordinary wealth of plants are present even in such a compact space.


History: 
Millgate House was built in the 1720's, possibly for a butcher who left it to his son in 1730 . It was later owned by the mayor of Richmond, Fowler Hicks. In 1812 John Hobson, whose initials are carved on the keystone at the bottom of the garden, acquired the property, re-modelled the house and bought the garden of the house next door. The house was a doctors' surgery from 1900 until the present owners, Austin Lynch and Tim Culkin both teachers from Richmond School, acquired it in 1980 and converted it back into a comfortable house whilst retaining the original Georgian and Regency features. They replanted the gardens and in 1990 converted the derelict Coach House into a spacious five-bedroomed, three-storey house, which, together with the main house provides luxurious bed and breakfast accommodation.

Local Inns: 
Black Bull Inn, Moulton
Sandpiper Inn, Leyburn

Accomodation: 
Millgate House
Sandpiper Inn, Leyburn

Restaurants: 


Village/Town/Sightseeing: 
Richmond Town, Castle
and Georgian theatre