Holland House has three acres of beautiful well maintained gardens sloping down to the River Avon. With many quiet spaces and private spots for relaxation and reflection there is much of interest to be found in the garden which is naturally divided between formal and natural areas.

Formal areas of the garden include well maintained lawns, one of which is often used for croquet during the summer months and deep colourful borders planted in the original Georgian style. A recently redesigned rose garden dedicated to The Friends of Holland House contains 120 roses and is under-planted with natural annuals such as fox-glove, nigella and verbascum, the beds being bordered by lavenda, box and alchemilla mollis. This beautiful garden is at its best during June and July and can be found opposite the Chapel behind an historic yew hedge that has unusual ‘windows’ cut into it to let in light.

Just outside the Reception entrance there is a remarkable sunken garden now filled with culinary and medicinal herbs. This is in the Sir Edwin Lutyens style and is reputed to have been designed by him. Sir Edwin is described as “surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth (or of any other) century”, and went on to design the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London, and the city of New Deli in India.