High Glanau was the final country house to be built
for H. Avray Tipping, architecture editor of Country Life
The house was designed by Tipping when he was living at Mounton House, and was built in 1922-23 in conjunction with the architect Eric Francis.
The black-and-white photographs were taken for
a Country Life article published in June 1929
The ribbon parterre looking towards the house, in 1929
The ribbon parterre, recreated in the 2000s
Tipping had originally bought the estate as a rough shoot in 1917
Tipping's sketch plan of the terraces at High Glanau
The octagonal pool
The fountain and octagonal pool, seen from the upper west terrace
The fountain and octagonal pool
The lower pool, whose surrounding rhododendrons are still
the originals, planted by Tipping in 1923
The gardens look out over northern Monmouthshire towards the Sugar Loaf and the Black Mountains
The lower west terrace
Bedded plats on the upper west terrace
The upper woodland gardens
Looking down to the lawn over bedded plats
Wysteria frames Tipping's study window
Looking along the parterre and herbaceous borders to the pergola
Looking along the parterre and herbaceous borders to the pergola, in 1929
Hedges and borders from the south terrace
Fruit trees and wild flowers above the glasshouse
The glasshouse, built by Thomas Messenger & Co in 1923
Inside the glasshouse
