The house comprises a converted farm building with a Victorian semi-detached front overlooking Castle grounds.
An impressive horse chestnut tree is at the entrance to a winding drive through a walled garden planted with lawn, roses, daffodils, wild flower meadow grasses and various young trees and shrubs.
A yew hedge divides this side garden with a walled garden at the back of the house overlooking the Bullcroft park and planted with beech hedging, herbaceous borders, fruit trees and raised beds for vegetables.
Access: Wheelchair accessible
Impressive listed Georgian house with Bath stone frontage and magnificent magnolia grandiflora.
The garden is about 1.5 acres and has undergone changes during the current 5 year ownership to remove concrete paths and many conifers. The new planting is settling in and consists of herbaceous borders, shrubs, small trees and a greenhouse and vegetable patch and wild flowers.
Access: Access to the garden is via Bear Lane off Castle Street. Not suitable for wheelchairs due to gravel drive and paths and narrow access in certain areas
Eighteenth century listed Georgian house (formerly 2 cottages) with an impressive medieval stone entrance.
Small walled garden with many roses (including climbers), patio, small trees and bedding plants.
Access: Wheelchair access to a level terrace, 3 steps up to lawn
Listed Georgian house built in the 1760s with later Bathstone front and former stables (now garage).
Traditional walled cottage garden with roses, shrubs, climbers, bedding plants etc. An archway leads to a separate walled kitchen garden with beans, peas, tomatoes, cucumbers, sweetcorn, fig tree and blackcurrant.
Access: Wheelchair accessible but with a step up into garden and a small step into kitchen garden
Victorian house built in 3 stages between about 1850 and 1900.
The garden is approximately 1/3 of an acre with a hidden walled kitchen garden, a variety of ornamental & fruit trees, a wild flower area and more formal beds.
Access: Wheelchair accessible but there is a small lip into the garden and some surfaces are uneven.
A garden using hardy perennial plants and, although small, uses the natural curves and undulations to lead the eye on to look around the corners.
Access: Wheelchair accessible
Georgian house built in 1800. During the 1960s/1970s it was the Baptist Manse housing the pastors and families.
Some of the grave stones from a small cemetery at the bottom of the garden have been incorporated into the patio. The walled garden has climbing roses, honeysuckle, salvia, jasmine and a pretty summer house.
Access: Wheelchair access through the side entrance to a level patio and garden
Victorian Gothic cottage with walled garden, owned by William Blackstone the younger (1809-1881), who build Howbery Park.
The garden was a building site while the cottage was renovated in 2021/22. This will be its second season as a remodelled cottage garden with climbing roses, clematis, foxgloves, delphiniums and lupins, and hollyhocks in abundance along Thames Street verge.
Access: Enter via Thames Street, wheelchair accessible but one step up from road to side gate entrance.
The garden was originally part of the garden of the adjoining Riverside House and is supported by a decorative Norman Shaw boathouse.
Divided by a hornbeam hedge, there are herbaceous borders backed by vegetables, fruit trees, lawn and a shady walkway with views to the river.
Access: Entry by the side gate, some steps with hand rail, wheelchair access to the garden
A small but varied walled garden with box hedging around a central lawn and various seating areas.
There is a rose garden under a pink magnolia tree, a mixed planting area with herbs, a mulberry tree, a mixed border, eryngium and persicaria, a gravel area with pots, a wildlife pond (lots of frogs) with bamboo, fatsia and red cannas and a perennial border.
Access: Enter via a door on the left side of garage. Unfortunately there is no wheelchair access or pushchairs as there are too many uneven steps/slopes
Walcots is an 18th century house hidden away in the centre of town with three small walled gardens each with a pond.
A large wisteria and other climbers fill the walls. There are a number of unusual trees, shrubs and perennials together with numerous containers of hostas, pelargoniums and bulbs.
Access: Entrance is from St Mary’s Street. Step up into garden, some steps around garden, take care with ponds. Mainly wheelchair accessible
St John’s House is on the site of the medieval Hospice of St John but all that remains is the garden area that fronts St John’s Green. During WW2 the house was used by North American forces and subsequently the ground floor was a dental practice.
The current owners removed tons of concrete to produce an informal garden including grass and hiding places for the grandchildren. In January and February the garden is carpeted with giant snow drops. Growing conditions are difficult but choisyas, alstroemeria and salvias do well.
Access: Wheelchair accessible