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Garden Name: Througham Court
Last Modified: 15-03-2012
Garden ID: 0633

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Owner: Dr Christine Facer Hoffman
Address:
Througham


Postcode: GL6 7HG
County: Gloucestershire

tel: 07974 257 064
fax: 01285 821325
website: www.christinefacer.com/projects_througham1.html
email: cafacer //at// googlemail.com

English Heritage Grade:
II*

Opening Times:
May - Sept by appointment. Parties of more than 20 people welcome.

Best Times of Year to Visit: 
June, July, September

To see: 
Lots of structure, then summer planting and in the autumn, late
flowering perennials

National Collection: 


National Garden Scheme days: No
Comments: 

Parties / Coaches: Yes 
Comments: 40-seater coaches only, narrow single track road

Viewing by Appointment: Yes
Comments: By letter or email 

House Open for Viewing: No
Comments: 

Admission Prices:
Parties of 20-40 people welcome; £15 (inclusive of VAT) per person to include coffee/biscuits
(am visit) or tea/home-made cakes (pm visit) and 1.25h lecture tour around
garden

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

Other Facilities:
Cold lunches by prior arrangement for groups 20-30

Features: 
Arts & Crafts garden with topiary/contemporary science-inspired garden: awarded 2* in the Good Gardens Guide. Featured in RHS The Garden magazine and BBC2 TV Alan Titchmarsh's Gardens Secrets.
 

Designer: Norman Jewson and Dr. Facer Hoffman
Description of Garden:
17th century Jacobean house of architectural interest with 6 acres of formal/informal landscape overlooking a peaceful Cotswold valley. The garden is an amalgam of a 1930's Arts & Crafts garden laid out by the Cotswold
architect, Norman Jewson, and contemporary areas added in the last 10 years.

These areas are inspired by science and include Fibonacci's Walk; Cosmic Evolution Garden; Chiral Terrace and unusual gates and seats all designed by the owner- a landscape architect.


History: 


Local Inns: 
The Bell Inn (Sapperton)
Fosten's Ash (between Birdlip & The Camp)
Daneway Inn (Daneway, Sapperton)

Accomodation: 
In Cirencester/Cheltenham

Restaurants: 
In Cirencester/Cheltenham

Village/Town/Sightseeing: 
Cirencester
Miserden
Sapperton