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    THE MISTS OF TIME

    Aug 29, 2019 4 minutes
    Words and photographs Leigh Clapp

    KEY FACTS

    Character Designed to provide a series of vistas. Kentish ragstone walls frame the large sunken medieval fish pond fed by a natural spring, and other areas include a herbaceous border garden with late-season perennials and grasses, island shrub beds and rose garden

    Size Ten acres

    Aspect Various. The herbaceous garden on the south-west side

    Soil Neutral, fertile, well draining

    Owners Roy and Annabel Tucker, since 1977

    House Imposing 13th-century manor of weathered stone with mullioned windows. In the 17th century some of the house was demolished for building materials. It was restored and extended in 1921

    Open Through the National Gardens Scheme on 9 October ()

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