Sources: Helena Gerrish, CADW
Images 1,2,7,8 © the Clay family
Images 4,5 © Charles Hawes
Images 3,6,9 © Benington Lordship Gardens
Wyndcliffe Court is situated on a high bluff on the western side of the Wye valley. The house was built for the Clay family in the 1920s, designed in the Arts & Crafts style by Eric Francis
An aerial view, including the walled kitchen garden (1), herbaceous borders (4), sunken garden (5) and bowling green (6)
The gardens were designed and laid out on the south side of the house by H Avray Tipping, with views over the coastal plain to the Bristol Channel and England
watercolour by Lilian Mabel Bott (1871-1953)
The summerhouse
Double herbaceous borders linking the house to the kitchen garden
The sunken garden
watercolour by Lilian Mabel Bott (1871-1953)
The sunken garden
Yew topiary on a terrace above the bowling green
Upper terrace with a scallop-headed pool
watercolour: Lilian Mabel Bott (1871-1953)