Houghton Lodge
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Houghton Lodge is a Grade II* listed house on the River Test in Hampshire, England which was built in the 1790s, probably intended as a fishing lodge. The architect is more than likely John Plaw, a di
Houghton Lodge exemplifies the Cottage Ornée style. The reception rooms have french windows shaded by a verandah, while a servant wing (right) deliberately breaks the symmetry to provide informality.
Many of Houghton's windows are in the exaggerated, decorative Gothic, almost Islamic, style which originated from the Walpole's Strawberry Hill Gothic.
Houghton Lodge
Houghton Lodge east face 1
Walled garden
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A walled garden is a garden enclosed by high walls, especially when this is done for horticultural rather than security purposes, although originally all gardens may have been enclosed for protection
The walled garden of Edzell Castle, Scotland, survives from the early seventeenth century.
Detail of miniature, c. 1490s, showing a garden walled all round, with internal fencing of various kinds. The stone walls are unrealistically low for artistic convenience.
15th-century Hortus conclusus, with the Virgin Mary reading, imagined by the Upper Rhenish Master
Movable blocks to control the movement of hot air in the heated wall at Eglinton Country Park