Clifford Manor, Stratford upon Avon, England

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

Early 20th-century arts and crafts gardens attributed to Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Clifford Manor is situated at the south-east end of the single street which constitutes the village of Clifford Chambers, about 2km south of Stratford-upon-Avon. Clifford Chambers was situated in Gloucestershire until 1931, in which year it was transferred to Warwickshire. The roughly three hectare site comprises formal gardens, orchards and pools, and is bounded to the north-east by the River Stour. To the north-west the site is enclosed by a stone wall about 2.5 metres high which separates the pleasure grounds from the village street, while to the south-west hedges separate the site from a public footpath. To the south-east the site adjoins agricultural land. The site is generally level, with a slight slope towards the River Stour to the east and south.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

R Atkyns, The ancient and present state of Glostershire (1712)

English Illustrated Magazine (1866) [quoted in Bagenal 1914, p 91]

C Holme, Gardens of England in the Midland and Eastern Counties (1908), p 25, pl 37

P H Bagenal, Clifford Manor (1914), pp 76, 89-91

Country Life, 64 (4 August 1928), pp 168-75; (11 August 1928), pp 200-7; 109 (18 May 1951), supplement; 149 (29 April 1971), supplement p 9; 180 (30 October 1986), supplement

Victoria History of the County of Gloucestershire VI, (1965), pp 209-10

N Pevsner and A Wedgewood, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire (1966), p 234

P Reid, Burke's and Savills Guide to Country Houses II, (1980), p 137

J Brown, Gardens of a Golden Afternoon (1982), p 173

G Tyack, Warwickshire Country Houses (1994), p 238

Maps

OS Old Series 1" to 1 mile, published 1831

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1887; 2nd edition published 1903; 3rd edition published 1913; 1922 edition

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1886; 2nd edition published 1914

Illustrations

W Quartermain, entrance facade of Clifford Manor, around 1900 [reproduced in Bagenal 1914]

Early 20th-century photographs [in Bagenal 1914]

Archival items

E L Lutyens, Plans for the rebuilding of Clifford Manor, 1918-20 (DR436/33), (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office)

Sale particulars, 1989 (NMR)
 

Description written: June 2000

Amended: July 2000, September 2000

Edited: December 2000