Fabric of our past
SOME 240 sites were added to the National Heritage List for England last year, Historic England has announced. Among the sites are a Lake District watermill once painted by Constable, a Georgian folly in Cornwall, trenches in Norfolk that were used to train soldiers in the First World War and a 1920s sunken garden commissioned by Victoria, Lady Sackville, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and featured in COUNTRY LIFE in 1927.
The garden, at White Lodge in Brighton, is now listed Grade II. It is a striking example of Lutyens’s landscaping style and a manifestation of the relationship with his patron Lady Sackville, which was the subject of much gossip. The garden survives today with most of its original structure intact and shows Lutyens’s style of combining formality in the patterned pavements
