A fine prospect
THE garden at Wyndcliffe Court, near Chepstow, is a little miracle. It was completed in 1922, the work of Henry Avray Tipping, Architectural Editor of COUNTRY LIFE, in tandem with local architect Eric Francis, who built the house, as well as two houses for Tipping himself. Architect and gardener knew how to work together, the old ideal recipe.
They were offered a virgin site on an escarpment above the Severn estuary. The client was Charles Leigh Clay of Claymore Shipping, whose father had lived almost within view at Piercefield House, famous for its Picturesque walks overlooking the Wye and sold
