Blagdon, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England

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

The remains of early 18th-century gardens with early 20th-century additions by Sir Edwin Lutyens accompanying a country house. These, together with late 18th-century pleasure grounds with 19th-century additions and early 20th-century additions by Gertrude Jekyll, are set in an early 18th-century park with mid 18th-century work by Francis Richardson.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Blagdon lies about 13 kilometres north of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, immediately west of the A1 and 2.5 kilometres south of Stannington village. A roughly rectangular, rural site comprising around 175 hectares, it is bounded on all four sides by unclassified roads, the eastern boundary road running parallel to the A1. The site is mainly flat but slopes to the west.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

The Garden 49, (15 February 1896), pp 112-13

Country Life, 112 (18 July 1952), pp 188-91; (25 July 1952), pp 260-3; (8 August 1952), pp 396-9

N Pevsner and I A Richmond, The Buildings of England: Northumberland (1957, reprinted 1974), pp 97-8

L Fleming and A Gore, The English Garden (1979), p 228

J Harris, The Artist and the Country House (1979), p 126, plate 127

J Brown, Gardens of a Golden Afternoon (1982), pp 46, 48-9, 50, 151-1, 196

M and R Tooley, Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll in Northern England (1982), p 55

Blagdon, guidebook, (no date, late 20th century)

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published in about 1860; 3rd edition published 1924

Archival items

Jekyll plans held at Reef Point Gardens Collection, California; microfilm copies are available at National Monuments Record, Swindon, folder 221.
 

Description written: September 2000

Amended: July 2001; March 2003; August 2003; March 2004

Edited: June 2003