Shute House, Grade II listed building in Donhead St Mary, England
The central building combines a 16th-century rectory range with an additional section constructed during the early 18th century at Church Hill.
The Church of England sold this former rectory in the 1940s, and the property received its current name Shute House in 1955.
The gardens, designed by landscape architect Geoffrey Jellicoe between 1969 and 1983, earned a Grade II* listing on the Register of Historic Parks.
The property sits 2.5 miles east of Shaftesbury at the southern edge of Wiltshire, near the border with Dorset county.
Natural springs feed into water channels that form both naturalistic and formal rills throughout the garden, leading to twin grottoes and fish ponds.
Location: Donhead St Mary
GPS coordinates: 51.01998,-2.13767
Latest update: March 3, 2025 14:08
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