Sherborne House, Cheltenham, England

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

Gardens, pleasure ground and landscape park of later 16th-century and later date associated with a country house.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Sherborne village stands along the north bank of the Sherborne Brook on Sherborne Lane, which where it passes alongside the house's gardens is set in a shallow, stone-walled cutting. The village stands 1.5 kilometres north of the A40 from Oxford to Cheltenham, which is about 25 kilometres to the north-west. The eastern part of the village was rebuilt around allotments in the mid-19th century; the western end of the village contains some older houses. Sherborne Park stands alongside St Mary's church 400 metres south-east of the village, with its park extending north and principally south of it. The parkland is largely bounded to the south by the A40 (section adjoining Cheltenham Lodges realigned and moved slightly south in the 20th century), to the west by an unclassified road off it to Sherborne village, and to the east by an estate road serving Home Farm. Old Park is bounded to the east by an unclassified road to Clapton-on-the-Hill, but otherwise its boundary follows field edges. The area here registered is around 260 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

R Atkyns, The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire (1712), plate facing p 644

S Rudder, A New History of Gloucestershire (1779)

H Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 (1978 edition), p 791

D Verey, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire The Cotswolds (2nd edition 1979), pp 394-8

Country Life, 179 (20 March 1986), pp 720-3

K A Fretwell, Sherborne and Lodge Parks: Park and Garden Survey, (report for National Trust 1990)

Maps

Isaac Taylor, Map of Gloucestershire, 1777

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1881-3, published 1884-6 

Description written: June 1999

Edited: April 2003