Tattingstone Parish

The mid-eighteenth century Tattingstone Place once stood in an extensive landscape park created around a series of fishponds in the valley of Tattingstone Brook, which may have been part of an elaborate eighteenth century water garden. Its gardens were enclosed by a ha-ha. The house stood on rising ground with a terraced garden, possibly the work of William Nesfield in the mid-nineteenth century to accommodate the slope down to the water’s edge. In the nineteenth century a yard attached to the house became a surviving walled garden. Within the wooded parkland there was an icehouse within a clump of trees and the eighteenth-century Tattingstone Wonder folly was built just outside the park’s boundary as an eye-catcher and to extend the view from the house. During the 1970s and 80s a dam was constructed that flooded the valley of the brook to create Alton Water and a substantial part of the designed landscape associated with the house was lost.
Not open to the public