Front garden for cotswold stone outbuilding with early flowering ornamental cherry trees and herbaceous borders including Verbena, Gaura and Alcea

Manor House Box Wiltshire
A romantic gothic inspired garden

The idea

The brief called for a formal Gothic sanctuary defined by scent, privacy, and architectural structure. While the site is fully enclosed by striking original stone walls, the design strategically preserves vistas overlooking Box and the surrounding parkland. The project extended to the front gardens, featuring a new planting scheme and hand-crafted chestnut cleft fencing.

The flora

To honour the Gothic aesthetic, we curated a dramatic palette of white, black, and burgundy. Mature Yew pyramids provide year-round stature, acting as structural anchors against the perennials.

The detail

A narrowing cobbled path paired with graduated topiary uses forced perspective to create a sense of scale and distance. At the garden’s midpoint, a classic rose arbor serves as a crossroads: directing the eye toward the Walled Garden on one side and the Formal Lawn on the other.

Avenue of clipped yew cone topiary underplanted with ox-eye daisies and climbing roses
Rose-covered arch leading down a stone path lined with yew topiary cones to an iron gate
Pencil and watercolour concept garden sketch showing a formal stone framed lawn and yew topiary avenue and large herbaceous borders

“Tom is a superb designer.”

Georgie

Single clipped yew cone rising from a drift of ox-eye daisies and white roses
Stone path bordered by billowing catmint, yew cones and young pleached trees
A cobblestone pathway with green plants and white and purple flowers growing along the edge.
Weathered timber chestnut cleft fence with pink valerian and self-seeded perennials growing along its base
A garden with various green plants and purple, yellow, and pink flowers in front of a stone house with a wooden door and multiple windows.
Climbing rose trained on a bespoke hazel trellis against a Cotswold stone wall
A garden with purple, white, and green flowering plants, brick pathway, and garden structures.
Stone pathway leading to a cozy house with large glass doors, surrounded by greenery and flowering plants.
A garden with lush greenery, trees, bushes, purple flowers, and a small fence. A vintage camper van with red and white colors and pink curtains in the windows is partially visible behind the trees.

Design and build
Eaglestone Gardens

Planting design
Eaglestone Gardens

Photography
Andrew Maybury
Tom Eaglestone

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