Warbrook House, Eversley, Hampshire: Aerial Survey of the garden and parkland
Author(s): Edward Carpenter
Warbrook House, Eversley, Hampshire is a Grade I listed early 18th-century Palladian villa that sits within a Grade II* Registered Park and Garden that is on the Heritage at Risk Register. The house, formal garden and wider formal landscape were designed and constructed by the architect John James (c1672-1746). His work was informed by his translation of d’Argenville’s The Theory and Practice of Gardening. The book introduces the grand manner of garden design to England and presents the then relatively new technique of using a ha-ha. This aerial survey has identified low earthworks within the formal garden and across the wider park, most of which have only been seen in lidar. Some of these appear to be the remains of the original early 18th-century garden design and allow a tentative outline of James’s original design to be suggested. The results of this survey will help in the creation of a sustainable management plan to remove Warbrook from the Heritage at Risk Register.
- Report Number:
- 46/2024
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 46
- Keywords:
- Standing Building Aerial Photograph Interpretation Aerial Photography
