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About Prideaux Place
On inheriting Prideaux Place in 1988 Peter Prideaux-Brune and his wife Elisabeth found that not only was the house suffering from dry and wet rot and in desperate need of restoration but the gardens had disappeared. Having restored the house it was time to tackle the gardens which had completely disappeared under a tangle of undergrowth, syacomore saplings and laurels. The Formal Garden, in its hey day in c.1909 was no longer there. The urns were all found scattered in the woods and the pretty conservatory which was a focal point had had to be pulled down in the 1950s. A Gothic galvanised steel trellis took its place recently to match the quatrefoil pond and a fountain was added. The flower beds were replaced from a busy Victorian design with a simpler scheme of quatrefoil box hedges with Acer Tarantino in the centre and yellow and white roses enclosed. Recently added was a Hornbeam Allee underplanted with camassias, alliums and lilies which leads up to the Woodland Walks behind the back of the gardens. Also added quite recently is an Acer Glade with the sloping bank planted up as a herbaceous border. Garden buildings include the Gothic double dairy, grotesque work at the back and at the front a simple classical building. Edmund Prideaux in c.1740 was responsible for the Temple made from Bath stone, reputedly the first use of Bath stone outside that city and also from his Grand Tour the Garden Seat containing funerary casks.
Website:
https://prideauxplace.co.uk
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