Landscape Advice Note: Examples of post 1945 Designed Landscapes included on the Register of Parks and Gardens www.english-heritage.org.uk/ professional/advice/advice-by-topic/ parks-and-gardens/ Garden historians and students have • Sites with a strong group value with other heritage assets. expressed an interest in how late 20th • Sites less than 30 years old are normally century designed landscape is covered registered only if they are of outstanding by the Register of Parks and Gardens quality and under threat. of Special Interest in England. Late The Selection Guides for the Register of Parks and 20th century heritage is also one of the Gardens provide further guidance on the selection priorities identified in English Heritage’s criteria, these can be found at www.english-heritage. org.uk/caring/listing/registered-parks-and-gardens/ National Heritage Protection Plan (NHPP). This Landscape Advice The Register spans a wide range of designed Note provides a list of the notable landscape types from sites associated with houses and housing schemes; institutions like asylums, examples of designed landscapes dating botanical gardens, cemeteries, colleges, factories, from 1945 and illustrates the range of hospitals, hotels, museums, pumping stations, reservoirs; and sites designed or used for public landscape types. amenity and recreation like public parks, public gardens, public walks, public resorts. THE REGISTER OF PARKS AND GARDENS Most of the post 1945 registered sites to date are private gardens but there are also housing schemes The Register of Parks and Gardens of Special such as the Barbican in London; a department store Historic Interest in England identifies ornamental roof garden; higher education establishments like and recreational landscapes of national importance St Catherine’s College; and several cemetery and from every historic era up to 30 years ago. The crematorium designs reflecting the post Second Register currently includes 50 notable designs dating World War renewed effort to create green spaces from 1945 to 1980. This represents three per cent and the marked move towards more socially of register entries. Many more registered historic inclusive landscapes. Landscape design continues parks and gardens include post 1945 design. to evolve although many schemes, especially in the public realm, like motorway landscaping, lie beyond The older a designed landscape is, and the fewer the the Register’s current scope. surviving examples of its kind, the more likely it is to have special interest. Designs dating after 1945 are The list of notable examples of later 20th century carefully selected and the following criteria are used: landscape design is shown below in two modes, the first list will be sorted alphabetically by designer, the • Sites which were influential in the second shall be listed chronologically by date. development of taste, whether through reputation or reference in literature. • Sites which are early or representative examples of a style of layout or a type of site, or the work of a designer (amateur or professional) of national importance. • Sites having an association with significant persons or historic events. 2 01 4 00 00 02 IMAGES: Cover: St. Catherine’s College, 01: The Barbican Housing Estate, 02: Dartington Hall, Oxford University, Oxon. City of London Totnes, Devon © English Heritage, James O. Davies © English Heritage, James O. Davies © English Heritage, Peter Williams 3 LIST OF NOTABLE POST 1945 DESIGNED LANDSCAPES BY DESIGNER List Entry Title County Grade Designer Approx. Number Date 1000456 Kiftsgate Court Glos II Binney, Diany 1972 1001674 German Military Staffs I Brandi, Diez 1959 Cemetery 1000453 Dartington Hall Devon II* Cane, Percy 1945 1001373 Hedsor House Bucks II Cane, Percy 1940s 1000701 Sharpham House Devon II* Cane, Percy 1945 1410977 Salisbury Wiltshire II Colvin, Brenda 1956 Crematorium 1001107 Sutton Courtenay Oxon II Colvin, Brenda 1948 Manor 1000435 Magdalen College, Oxon I Crowe, Dame Sylvia 1953 University of Oxford 1000268 Lexham Hall Norfolk II Crowe, Dame Sylvia, 1950s Foster, William 1001393 Commonwealth London II Crowe, Dame Sylvia; 1959 Institute Matthew, Robert and Johnson- Marshall and Partners 1001028 Cottesbrooke Hall Northants II Crowe, Dame Sylvia Post-1945 1001299 The House, Marsh Essex II Gibberd, Sir Frederick 1956 Lane 1001514 Friarwood Valley West Yorkshire II Grubb, R.W 1950 Gardens 1001488 Barbara Hepworth Cornwall II Hepworth, Dame Barbara 1949 Sculpture Garden 1001367 Sir Harold Hillier Hants II Hillier, Sir Harold 1950s Gardens and Arboretum 1001156 Tintinhull House Somerset II Hobhouse, Penelope; 1945 Reiss, Phyliss and Peto, Harold 1001388 St. Catherine's Oxon II Jacobsen, Arne 1960 College, University of Oxford 1001425 Civic Square Devon II Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey 1962 1000323 Cliveden Bucks I Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey 1950s 1001710 Hemel Water Herts II Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey 1957 Gardens 1000202 Horsted Place East Sussex II Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey 1966 1001017 Sandringham House Norfolk II* Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey 1947 1000150 St Paul’s Walden Bury Herts I Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey 1975 1001554 Sutton Place Surrey II* Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey 1980 1001474 The Jellicoe Roof Surrey II Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey 1956 Garden 1001423 Walsall Memorial West Midlands II Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey 1947 Garden 4 List Entry Title County Grade Designer Approx. Number Date 1000710 Bingham’s Melcombe Dorset II* Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey and 1949 Colvin, Brenda 1000387 Saling Hall Essex II Johnson, Hugh 1970 1408334 Japanese Garden at Oxon II* Atroshenko, V and 1964 the New House Mr. Kasamoto 1001549 Queen’s Park Wiltshire II Loring-Morgan, J and 1949 Williams, M.J 1000763 Flaxley Abbey Glos II Messel, Oliver Late 1960s 1001483 The Vale Student West Midlands II Mitchell, Mary 1959 Village, Edgbaston, University of Birmingham 1001573 American Military Cambs I Olmsted Brothers Landscape 1952 Cemetery Architects 1000184 Leeds Castle Kent II* Page, Russell; Boudin, Stephané 1960s and Goffinet, Francois 1001668 The Barbican London II* Chamberlin Powell and Bon 1963 with Ove Arup & Partners 1000263 Chartwell Kent II* Roper, Lanning 1965 1000446 Waddesdon Manor Bucks I Roper, Lanning 1964 1001088 Broughton Castle Oxon II Roper, Lanning 1970 1000153 Penshurst Place Kent I Roper, Lanning and 1968 Codrington, John 1000610 Abbots Ripton Hall Cambs II Roper, Lanning and 1960s Waterfield, Humphrey 1001715 Ashton Wold Northants II Rothschild, Hon Dame Miriam 1970s onwards 1000715 Cranborne Manor Dorset II* Salisbury, Lady 1954 1000286 City of London London I Sudell, Richard 1950s Cemetery 1000878 Croft Castle Herefordshire II* Thomas, Graham Stuart 1957 1000768 Hidcote Manor Glos I Thomas, Graham Stuart Mid- 1950s 1000433 Sezincote Glos I Thomas, Graham Stuart and 1945 Kleinwort, Lady 1000468 Montacute House Somerset I Thomas, Graham Stuart and 1951 Reiss, Phyliss 1000773 Nether Lypiatt Manor Glos II Verey, Rosemary Late 1970s 1001646 Barnsley House Glos II* Verey, Rosemary and 1950s Verey, David 1001342 Parliament Square London II Wornum, George 1949 5 03 04 LIST OF NOTABLE POST 1945 DESIGNED LANDSCAPES BY DATE List Entry Title County Grade Designer Approx. Number Date 1000453 Dartington Hall Devon II* Cane, Percy 1945 1000433 Sezincote Glos I Thomas, Graham Stuart, 1945 Kleinwort, Lady 1000701 Sharpham House Devon II* Cane, Percy 1945 1001156 Tintinhull House Somerset II Hobhouse, Penelope; 1945 Reiss, Phyliss and Peto, Harold 1001028 Cottesbrooke Hall Northants II Crowe, Dame Sylvia Post-1945 1001373 Hedsor House Bucks II Cane, Percy 1940s 1001017 Sandringham House Norfolk II* Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey 1947 1001423 Walsall Memorial West II Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey 1947 Garden Midlands 1001107 Sutton Courtenay Oxon II Colvin, Brenda 1948 Manor 1001488 Barbara Hepworth Cornwall II Hepworth, Dame Barbara 1949 Sculpture Garden 1000710 Bingham’s Dorset II* Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey, 1949 Melcombe Colvin, Brenda 1001342 Parliament Square London II Wornum, George 1949 1001549 Queen’s Park Wiltshire II Loring-Morgan, J and 1949 Williams, M.J 1001514 Friarwood Valley West II Grubb, R.W 1950 Gardens Yorkshire 1001646 Barnsley House Glos II* Verey, Rosemary and 1950s Verey, David 1000286 City of London London I Sudell, Richard 1950s Cemetery 1000323 Cliveden Bucks I Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey 1950s 1000268 Lexham Hall Norfolk II Crowe, Dame Sylvia and 1950s Foster, William 1001367 Sir Harold Hillier Hants II Hillier, Sir Harold 1950s Gardens and Arboretum 1000468 Montacute House Somerset I Thomas, Graham Stuart and 1951 Reiss, Phyliss 1001573 American Military Cambs I Olmsted Brothers Landscape 1952 Cemetery Architects 1000435 Magdalen College, Oxon I Crowe, Dame Sylvia 1953 University of Oxford 1000715 Cranborne Manor Dorset II* Salisbury, Lady 1954 1000768 Hidcote Manor Glos I Thomas, Graham Stuart Mid- 1950s 1410977 Salisbury Wiltshire II Colvin, Brenda 1956 Crematorium 1001299 The House, Marsh Essex II Gibberd, Sir Frederick 1956 Lane 7 List Entry Title County Grade Designer Approx. Number Date 1001474 The Jellicoe Roof Surrey II Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey 1956 Garden, Guildford 1000878 Croft Castle Herefordshire II* Thomas, Graham Stuart 1957 1001710 Hemel Water Herts II Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey 1957 Gardens 1001393 Commonwealth London II Crowe, Dame Sylvia; 1959 Institute Matthew, Robert and Johnson- Marshall and Partners 1001674 German Military Staffs I Brandi, Diez 1959 Cemetery 1001483 The Vale, West II Mitchell, Mary 1959 Edgbaston, Midlands University of Birmingham 1001388 St. Catherine’s Oxon