Highnam Court, Gloucester, England

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

Largely mid-19th-century gardens, including extensive Pulhamite water garden, and landscape park associated with mid-17th-century country house.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Highnam Court stands about 4 kilometres north-west of Gloucester, on rising ground above the floodplain of the River Severn which flows 2 kilometres to the east. The park is bounded to the south by the A40 west from Gloucester, and to the north-east by the B4215 to Newent which spurs off it. A track west off the B4215 forms the north boundary of the park, while its west boundary is determined by the stream which has long been dammed to form the pools which loop west and south of the house. The area here registered is roughly 40 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Country Life, 5 (1 April 1899), pp 400-4; 14 (7 November 1903), pp 644-6; 107 (12 May 1950), pp 1376-80; (19 May 1950), pp 1462-6

Victoria History of the County of Gloucestershire X, (1972), pp 18-20

D Verey, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire The Vale and the Forest of Dean (2nd edition 1976, reprinted 1980), pp 269-71

Garden History 12, no 2 (1984), pp 138-58

N Kingsley, The Country Houses of Gloucestershire, Volume One, 1500-1660 (1989), pp 106-8

Highnam Court: A Report on the Rock and Water Gardens of James Pulham, (Singleton Edwards Landscape 1990)

Highnam Court: Restoration Masterplan, (Singleton Edwards Landscape around 1990)

N Kingsley, The Country Houses of Gloucestershire, Volume Two, 1660-1830 (1992), pp 164-6

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1882-3, published 1889 

Description written: April 1999

Edited: April 2003