Bowden Hall, (also known as Creed's Place, Bounden Hall and Bowden Hall Ramada Hotel Gloucester), Upton St Leonards, England

These description was compiled from sales particulars only the lake, scrubs and trees remain in a lawn whilst the kitchen garden wall can be found.

The house was built on a terrace of Nut Hill. On the south east side it still had a loggia in 1925 with a Magnolia trained up that side of the house. Extensions to this side of the house demolished the loggia.

There is a long terrace walk on the hall's southern side aligned to the tower of Gloucester Cathedral. This may have been one of the views that Robert Marnock that advised John Dearman Birchall in 1868 to open up.

Garden

Orangery

The orangery is in the Queen Anne style. It brick and stone faced, had a wood block floor heated by a boiler in a shed at the back. It was sympathetically converted to a house for the owner managers in 1980.

Although John Dearman Birchall primarily bought land to prevent Gloucester suburbs being built on them he also bought Nut Hill in 1873. He had an ornamental stone built summer house erected on its summit.

In 1925 it was a rabbit warren.

The summer house was superseded by air defences including a bunker that still exists to protect the Glocester Aircraft Company manufacturing plant to the north at Brockworth. It is now owned by the Woodland Trust.

Surrounded by high brick wall on which are trained many fruit trees

On a south east facing wall there was a range of glass houses comprising

Small Kitchen Garden