Deanery Garden (or The Deanery) is an Arts and Crafts style house and garden in Sonning, Berkshire, England. The house was designed and built by architect Edwin Lutyens between 1899 and 1901.
Design and construction
The house was built for the founder of the early lifestyle magazine
Country Life, Edward Hudson, essentially as a show home.
[ com_parksandgardens/task, site/id,1061/Itemid,292/ Deanery Garden, The, Sonning, Reading, England, Record Id: 1061, Parks & Gardens UK .] It was featured in the magazine. The house has subsequently been considerably extended on its north side. The garden (c. 1 hectare) was planted by Gertrude Jekyll. Although in the centre of the village next to St Andrew's Church and the Bull Inn, the house and garden are very secluded, being surrounded by high walls. However, the garden can be viewed from the church tower.
[Alastair Driver, Deanery Garden , Sonning.net.]
Owners
Deanery Garden was owned by
Nigel Broackes (from the early 1970s) and
Stanley Seeger during the 1980s.
Marian Thompson helped to restore the garden.
The house and gardens, which are now owned by
Jimmy Page, guitarist with the group
Led Zeppelin,
are not open to the public.
Further reading
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Angel Perkins, The Book of Sonning, Barracuda Books, 1977. . 2nd edition, Baron Buckingham, 1999. . Pages 129–30, 133–5.
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