• The Nicolsons' grand-daughter Jenifer, with her nanny, in the Sunken Garden, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    The Natural Order of Things

    Horticulture is a pursuit of such breadth and all-encompassing habit, that many of those who practice it may seem as distant from one another as those of different professions altogether. Winterbourne was conceived at the height of the Arts and Crafts movement. Inspired by the movement’s chief protagonist, Gertrude Jekyll, the cult of the herbaceous…

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  • Winterbourne House and Drive, 1952, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: Now and Then

    Winterbourne’s broad terrace was employed successfully by architect, JL Ball, as a means of transitioning from house to garden. Ball prescribed a typically understated treatment of the retaining wall and in particular the small verandah which links projecting cross wings on either side: ‘the ceiling and walls inside the verandah to be whitewashed and the…

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