Rooms with a view
TODAY, the honey-coloured Georgian façade of Admington Hall looks out across a smooth sea of green lawn. The view is framed with groups of maturing native trees that lead the eye beyond the ha-ha and through a distant row of chestnuts to the gentle rise beyond. It all appears so right, as if this is how things have always been. When Antonia and Mark Davies moved here in 1996, however, rockeries and rose beds were dotted across the lawn and a shelterbelt of conifers distracted the eye.
‘The row of chestnuts in the distance marks the route of the original Georgian drive,’ says Mrs Davies, who has been the strong hand guiding the garden’s transformation. Behind the façade lies the Hornton-stone Jacobean house, the drive of which led to the back of the house. The Georgians changed this
