(14) South Downs National Park Authority

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Stoner House

HCC Summary: Late C19 small park.
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HCC Site ID:	1398	Parish:	Steep
Designations:	SDNP	Area:	n/k
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Private

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Stonerwood Park

Originally a ‘Jacobethan’ style house built in the 1870s for which Unsworth & Triggs laid out a formal garden in 1919. In the 1930s, the house was replaced with a Baillie Scott neo-Georgian house. More recently, in the 1990s-2000s, the gardens were restored closely to the 1919 Inigo Triggs design and an arboretum added.
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HCC Site ID:	1403	Parish:	Steep
Designations:	SDNP	Area:	c3 ha
Access:	No Public Access, Private visits by arrangement	Ownership:	Private garden

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Studwell Lodge

HCC Summary: C18 House, tunnel constructed in garden C19
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HCC Site ID:	1523	Parish:	Droxford
Designations:	SDNP	Area:
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Private

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Swanmore Park House

HCC Summary: Late C18 house demolished in 1870 and rebuilt. An early C19 formal garden & parkland redesigned with walled garden. Some features remain round the house, now apartments.
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HCC Site ID:	1577	Parish:	Swanmore
Designations:	House LB II, SDNP	Area:	Medium
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Multiple Private

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Tichborne Park

HCC Summary: Held by the Tichborne family from 1135 to present. Old house demolished in C19 & a new classical style built with a Catholic chapel. The parkland appears little altered over many years.
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HCC Site ID:	1578	Parish:	Tichborne
Designations:	SNDP, SMR, SSSI House LB II	Area:	Large (47 ha)
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Private

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Twyford House

HCC Summary: A Tudor or Jacobean house originally with ‘a bowling green’, altered in the early 1700s in Queen Anne style with a garden pavilion added. The gardens became more developed in the 19th century with kitchen gardens and specimen trees. The significance of Twyford House is the connection with an historic bowling green (now in the neighbouring property) and a link to Dr Benjamin Franklin who wrote part of his autobiography in the Pavilion, 1771.
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HCC Site ID:	1586	Parish:	Twyford
Designations:	House LB II*, Garden Pavilion LB II, SDNP	Area:	c0.6 ha
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Multiple Private

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Twyford Lodge

HCC Summary: Small, late C18 country house with C19 additions, stables & coach house. Park with matured gardens & ground including two kitchen gardens & glasshouses.
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HCC Site ID:	1582	Parish:	Twyford
Designations:	House LB II*, SDNP, SMR, SSSI	Area:	Medium
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Private

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Twyford Moors

HCC Summary: A mid-19th century house designed by Henry Woodyer. The gardens were originally 3.2ha, with 12 ha of parkland. Many specimen trees create a sweeping landscape view from the house, with 50 yds of fishing below. Several features including the landscape remain..
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HCC Site ID:	1585	Parish:	Twyford
Designations:	House LB II*, SDNP, SMR, SSSI	Area:	Garden 3.25 ha
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Private

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Twyford School

HCC Summary: Early Georgian house, a private school by 1809. Additions in C19. Later building linked by landscaped courtyards. Ha-ha, walled garden with cob wall & mulberry tree preserved.
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HCC Site ID:	1581	Parish:	Twyford
Designations:	House LB II, SDNP	Area:	Medium
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Charitable school trust

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Upham House

HCC Summary: Walled garden and pleasure grounds.
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HCC Site ID:	1921	Parish:	Upham
Designations:	CA	Area:
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Private

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Vernon Hill House (Vernon Hill)

The house has been extensively restored and updated whilst retaining many of its historic features. The gardens have been re-designed and re-planted to further emphasise the historic importance of the site in the Bishops Waltham area..
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HCC Site ID:	1504	Parish:	Bishops Waltham
Designations:	House LB II, SDNP	Area:	c2.5 ha
Access:	Access See NGS	Ownership:	Private

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Wakes, The (Historic England)

HE Summary: Gardens, parkland, and ornamented woodland designed and laid out around his home between 1751 and the early 1760s by the naturalist and writer, the Rev Gilbert White.
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HCC Site ID:	1393	Parish:	Selborne
Designations:	HE II*	Area:
Access:	Public Access 10.30am – 4.30pm	Ownership:	Museum: Gilbert White’s House & Garden & the Oates Collection/?Trust

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Warnford Park (Historic England)

HE Summary: A mid C18 landscape park and pleasure grounds designed as the setting for a country house, possibly with the involvement of Lancelot Brown.
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HCC Site ID:	1590	Parish:	Warnford
Designations:	HE II	Area:
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Multiple Private

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West Meon House (Rectory)

HCC Summary: Rectory in the C19 with modest gardens, kitchen garden & working farm. Passed into lay hands in 1919. Gardens being recreated (2008) to a modern design & planting.
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HCC Site ID:	1591	Parish:	West Meon
Designations:	House LB II, SDNP, SINC	Area:	Medium
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Private

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Westbury House (Westbury House Nursing Home)

Westbury has traces of an early C18 formal garden designed by Charles Bridgeman overlaid by late C18, and early C19 parkland.
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HCC Site ID:	1341	Parish:	East Meon
Designations:	SDNP; St Nicholas Chapel & Stables LB II	Area:	c7ha
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Private

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Whitedale House

HCC Summary: C19 house set in pleasant grounds with lawns & perimeter woodland belts; partly walled area & stables; previously had an icehouse
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HCC Site ID:	1531	Parish:	Hambledon
Designations:	SDNP, SMR House LB II	Area:	c3 ha
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Private

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Wintershill Hall (Wintershill)

HCC Summary: Until mid-C19, the area was common land. House built in the 1850s. Enlarged 1902 70 acres of parkland, with clumps of oak, hornbeam and beeches.
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HCC Site ID:	1589	Parish:	Upham
Designations:	SINC SSSI	Area:	Large
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Private

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Woodcote Manor

HCC Summary: Medieval origins, lies in a small late C18 landscape park & C18th walled garden. 1911 redesign park & garden to give them more structure. Listed buildings include the C17 coach house & barn.
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HCC Site ID:	1502	Parish:	Bramdean
Designations:	SDNP, House LB II*	Area:	41.25 ha
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Multiple Private

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Woodlands Farm

HCC Summary:
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HCC Site ID:	1923	Parish:	West Meon
Designations:	SDNP	Area:
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Private

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Wyck Place

HCC Summary: Initially farmhouse, developed in C19 as a retirement seat. Grounds planted with native & exotic trees, & parkland for sporting activities. Today, lawn with informal plantings with many good specimen trees.
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HCC Site ID:	1301	Parish:	Binstead
Designations:	SDNP	Area:	16 ha (39.5 acres)
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Private residence

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Wylds, The

HCC Summary: Late Victorian landscaped park with series of fishponds and lake (still remain); 1970s serpentine drive, plantsman’s garden, mature trees, specimen trees.
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HCC Site ID:	1373	Parish:	Liss
Designations:	SDNP, SSSI, AHBR	Area:	n/k
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Private

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