Woolverstone Parish

Woolverstone House is an Arts and Crafts house completed in 1901 and sunken garden to designs by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the gardens possibly inspired by the work of Gertrude Jekyll. Built on land on the edge of Woolverstone Park and owned by Charles Hugh Berners, it was originally used as a rest home for nuns and orphan girls, served as a Red Cross hospital during World War I, became a school and then a private residence in the 1980s. Attached to either side of the house are tall walls with arched gateways. The gardens comprise a series of compartments or rooms and include a sunken garden, lawns, formal hedges, herbaceous borders and numerous species of trees.
Not open to the public