Hascombe Court, Godalming, England

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

An early 20th-century country house surrounded by formal and informal gardens laid out initially from 1907, with major additions in about 1922 to designs by Gertrude Jekyll working with the architect C Clare Nauheim, and further work in the late 1920s to designs by Percy Cane.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Hascombe Court lies 500 metres west of the village of Hascombe, 5km south of Godalming. The roughly 11 hectare site is bounded to the west by a lane giving access directly from Godalming to the north, to the south by Mare Lane and beyond this Foxbury Copse wood, to the north by woodland including Heads Copse, and to the east by agricultural land leading down to the village. The site occupies a plateau which falls away sharply to the east and south. The setting is rural, with panoramic views over the surrounding undulating countryside and the village.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Garden Design, 3 (1930), pp 103-13

Country Life, 33 (5 April 1913), pp 10-12; 92 (18 September 1942), pp 554-7; 101 (11 April 1947), pp 664-5

P Coats, Great Gardens of Britain (1967), pp 246-51

N Pevsner et al, The Buildings of England: Surrey (1971), p 304

R Webber, Percy Cane: Garden Designer (1975), pp 72-5

R Bisgrove, The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll (1992), pp 89-90

Maps

P Cane, Hascombe Court, Godalming, no date (around 1928) (private collection)

OS 6" to 1 mile: 3rd edition published 1920; 1938 edition

OS 25" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1897; 3rd edition published 1912; 3rd edition revised 1916

Archival items

Copies of Jekyll's planting plans (File 27, Folder 170) are held on microfilm at the National Monuments Record (originals held at Reef Point, USA)

Sale particulars, 1921 (SP 7/6), (Surrey Local History Centre)
 

Description written: September 2000

Edited: April 2003