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Norwood House

The gardens of Norwood House combine the controlled chaos of nature with a little formality. The planting is elegant and modern, with box topiary providing formal structure, interspersed with soft planting of verbena, grasses, alchemilla mollis and crocosmia. The East lawn is now filled with a wildflower meadow framed by borders offering subtle floral colour.

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Norwood House
Norwood House
Norwood House
Norwood House
Norwood House
Norwood House
Norwood House
Norwood House
Norwood House
Norwood House
Norwood House
Norwood House
Norwood House
Norwood House
Norwood House
Norwood House

About Norwood House

The gardens of Norwood House combine the controlled chaos of nature with a little formality. The planting is elegant and modern, with box topiary providing formal structure, interspersed with soft planting of verbena, grasses, alchemilla mollis and crocosmia. The East lawn is now filled with a wildflower meadow framed by borders offering subtle floral colour.
The borders also include many varieties of geranium and other perennials and shrubs, there is also a large rockery full of alpines.

In front of the house is a large wild flower meadow and a lake, which offers the most spectacular view, there could be nothing better on a summers evening sitting on the terrace with a glass of wine and admiring it. In addition, there is a woodland area which alongside the wild flower meadow featuring wild orchids provides an additional area to walk around and enjoy just being in the great outdoors.

The owners Jonathan & Rosie Lewis fell in love with Norwood House many years ago, it was a wonderful private house set within its own land that had been neglected over the years and was in need of renovation. They started the work on the house and surrounding grounds in 2011, it was a complete landscaping adventure which required a certain amount of vision to achieve what we can see today, a wonderful modern, elegant and landscaped garden.

The gardens surround the house on three sides; to the west is a small enclosed garden with lawn, vegetables, herbs, potted hostas and a large perennial border; to the south are lawns linking the west garden, with steps leading down to a large rockery with many alpines, long borders with sloping paths, box balls and hedges, lavender, lots of different hardy perennials and roses, plus a 50m bank walk with a laurel carpet wave; to the east is a large lawn surrounded by curving borders, several varieties of grasses, roses, geraniums, sedum and banks of lavender.

Norwood House features

Location details

Norwood House,
Dorchester,
Dorset,
DT2 0PD

Directions to Norwood House
1m from Fox Inn towards Halstock. 1m from national speed limit sign leaving Halstock towards Corscombe. Parking in field off the main drive.

Norwood House openings

This garden has now completed its National Garden Scheme openings for this year.

Accessibility

  • We can assist wheelchair users to access the gardens only some parts of which are inaccessible.
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FAQs

Payment is by cash only. Please get in touch with the owners for more details.

Yes, coaches are accepted at Norwood House. Please get in touch with the owners for details.

Sorry, no dogs are allowed in the garden at this time.

Yes, there are various plants offerred for sale at Norwood House, please enquire with the owners for more details.

Yes, one or more routes at Norwood House are accessible to wheelchair users.

Yes. Norwood House seeks to offer a sustainable refuge for nearby fauna and wildlife. These sanctuaries host diverse habitats supporting indigenous flora and fauna and nurturing local biodiversity.