Masterplan and detailed landscape designs for the restoration
of the halls and the Capability Brown parkland.
Heveningham was one of Capability Brown's last designs
before he died. Now 200 years later, we have implemented his plans for
2000 acres of parkland and 2 kilometres of lakes. The River Blyth has
been restored to its mediaeval meanders and up to 20 hectares of broadleaf
woodland is being planted each year. The wet meadows, parkland grazing
and woodland management are all integrated into a fifty-year habitat plan.
The original Victorian Garden behind the Grade 1 eighteenth
century hall has been replaced with a completely new garden of sweeping
grass terraces. The terraces flow with the rising land, arcing in a Fibonacci
series fan that encompasses the veteran trees and gives the house room
to breathe.
The design was inspired by the landform, the setting of
the hall and the long tradition of earth sculpting that so suits the British
climate. |