Shobdon, Leominster, England

The house was built around 1700, with surrounding gardens.

Thomas Greening was paid for garden improvements in 1722. 

There were improvements to the grounds in the mid-18th century, including the remodelling of the church in the rococo style and the reconstruction of the Arches as an eyecatcher.

W. A. Nesfield laid out a parterre in about 1860.

The house was demolished in 1933.

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

HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT

The Shobdon estate, including the recently rebuilt Shobdon Court, was bought from Robert Chaplin in 1705 by Sir James Bateman, MP, financier, a director of the East India Company, Governor of the Bank of England (1705-7) and sub-Governor of the South Sea Company from 1711. On his death the estate passed to his son William, a great art collector (created Viscount 1725, died 1744). His son John, the second Viscount, committed the care of the estate to his brother Richard, a friend of Horace Walpole. In 1751 Richard rebuilt Shobdon church, setting up the seat known as The Arches using materials culled from the old church in 1752. On Viscount Bateman's death in 1802 the title became extinct and Shobdon passed to his cousin's son William Hanbury. It then descended in that family (who around 1840 took the name Bateman-Hanbury) until the death of the third Lord Bateman in 1931, following which Shobdon was sold and the Court demolished. House and estate remain (1997) in private hands.