Great Dixter, Northiam, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

A 20th century garden with a formal framework by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1911, with subsequent modifications and additions and continuous development of outstanding planting by Mr and Mrs Nathaniel Lloyd and Christopher Lloyd.

DESCRIPTION

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Great Dixter lies c 0.5km west of the main A28 Tenterden to Hastings road, on the western edge of the village of Northiam. The registered site of about 2 hectares is bounded by open pale fencing along the lane running north-west from Northiam village. North-west of the lane and to the west and south, the garden merges into, and has views over, surrounding wooded farmland. To the east are the gardens of adjacent, detached houses. The slope of the site, from east to west, plays a significant part in the garden layout.

REFERENCES used by English Heritage

Country Life, 33 (4 January 1913), pp 18-26; 58 (21 November 1925), pp 795-797; no 11 (17 March 1988), pp 84-89

L Weaver, Houses and Gardens by Sir Edwin Lutyens (1925), pp 261-272, 334

Victoria History of the County of Sussex IX, (1937), pp 270-271

I Nairn and N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Sussex (1965), pp 575-576

T Wright, Gardens of Britain 4, (1978), pp 144-150

G Plumptre, Collins Book of British Gardens (1985), pp 126-127

Great Dixter, guidebook, (Great Dixter 1995)

D and B Martin, The Rape of Hastings, Architectural Survey No 983, Northiam, Great Dixter, (nd), pp 9-11

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 3rd edition published 1910

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1872

2nd edition published 1909

3rd edition published 1931

Description written: July 1998

Edited: March 2000