The Owl House
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Owl House |
The
Wisteria Room |
Named
for the night smugglers or 'Owlers' who traded English wool
for French Brandy, they gave coded hoot-calls to avoid the
tax inspectors. Mentioned in the Bodleian Library. Oxford,
that in 1522 the tennants paid the monks from Bayham Abbey
a yearly rental of one white cockerel. |
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Gardens |
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Owl House and gardens was created due to the passion of
Lady Dufferin who purchased the property in the 50's, with
dedication and hard work over the years she turned the cottage
and gardens into the pleasure it is today. Planting roses,
spring flowers, rare flowering shrubs and ornamental fruit
trees, expanding the lawns and making woodland walks through
birch, beech, and English Oak.
On the property there was an old disused ironworks that
supplied the gates for St Paul's Catherdral. The hammer
ponds that were used by the ironworks were transformed into
informal sunken water gardens banked by willow, rhododendrons,
azaleas and camellias. |
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| Location |
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Location: Lamberhurst
Admission: Adults £4.00.
Children £1.00
Open: 11.00am
- 6.00pm Daily throughout the year except Christmas Day
and News Years Day.
Tel:
01892 890 230 |
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