Painswick Rococo Gardens, Gloucestershire, England

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

Landscape garden of later 1730s and 1740s, painted by, and possibly in part designed by, Thomas Robins, and landscape park, associated with gentleman's house of 1730s.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Painswick House stands within its park on the west side of the B4073 to Gloucester, one kilometre north of the centre of Painswick town. To the south-west the ground falls away into a valley; Painswick's landscape garden lies behind, north-west of, the House in a small subsidiary valley. The north-west side of the valley provides the boundary of the landscape garden and the registered area. To the south the park boundary follows the footpath from Butt Green west to Holcombe. The area here registered is roughly 25 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Victoria History of the County of Gloucestershire XI, (1976), pp 68-9

D Verey, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire The Cotswolds (2nd edition 1979), pp 363-4

Journal of Garden History 4, no 2 (1984), pp 163-78

Country Life, no 24 (15 June 1989), pp 156-61

M Symes, The English Rococo Garden (1991), pp 1, 4, 8, 30, 32, 39, 62-6, 69

N Kingsley, The Country Houses of Gloucestershire, Volume Two, 1660-1830 (1992), pp 197-200

The Sunday Telegraph, 17 January 1999, p 18

Painswick Rococo Garden, guidebook, (Painswick Rococo Garden, no date)

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1881-2, published 1886 

Description written: April 1999

Amended: May 2001

Edited: April 2003