Heathcote, Ilkley, England

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

A formal garden designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens during the years 1906-11 as an integral part of the design of the house. Gertrude Jekyll was responsible for the planting scheme (Brown 1982, 186-8).

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Heathcote is situated about 1km west of the centre of Ilkley in a residential area. The approximately 1.6 hectare site is on the south side of Kings Road on land which slopes down to the east and south. The north boundary is formed by the outer stone walls of service buildings and a courtyard (listed grade II*) on the south side of Kings Road. On the south side of the site the boundary is formed by the north side of Grove Road where the remains of cast-iron fencing survives immediately behind a late 20th-century fence. The garden is divided from neighbouring gardens to the east and west by 20th-century fences.
 

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Country Life, 28 (9 July 1910), pp 54-65

N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire The West Riding (1967), pp 278-9

P Dunster (ed), Edwin Lutyens (1979), pp 72-3

D O'Neill, Lutyens' Country Houses (1980), pp 94-8

J Brown, The Gardens of a Golden Afternoon (1982), pp 108-9, 186-8

Lutyens, Arts Council of Great Britain exhibition catalogue (1982), pp 108-9
 

Maps

OS 25" to 1 mile: 2nd edition surveyed 1906-7;
1934 edition

Archival items

Microfiche copy of the Gertrude Jekyll planting scheme (NMR) [original held at College of Environmental Design Documents Collection, University of California, Berkeley]
 

Description written: February 1998

Edited: November 1999