Landscape record 0639701000 - Turn End, Townside

Small recent 20th century garden designed by P Aldington. Award winning development of 3 linked houses is surrounded by a series of garden rooms set out from 1970 onwards. Garden consists of fishpond courtyard, a formal box courtyard, an alpine garden, hot and dry raised beds and a rose garden. Potential future A-list. Too recent for inclusion at present (B2).
Illustrated account of the construction of the gardens at Turn End (B3).
The garden at Turn End, designed and created by Peter Aldington from 1965 to 1976 in conjunction with the house, is included in the Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Design interest: - a post-war garden of interlinked informal spaces and garden rooms with naturalised planting around existing trees and orchard, interwoven with the house, it reflects Aldington's hands-on approach, spatial skills as a designer and deep understanding of materials and plants;
- created in conjunction with the house, it is an expression of the architect's belief that architecture and landscape design are an indivisible whole;
- this intimate linkage is rare in a later C20 scheme, here devised by the same hand
- the houses and garden are exemplary as a model of later C20 intervention in a historic environment and are held in high regard by the architectural and horticultural professions.
Historic interest: - created by a nationally acclaimed architect, for himself and his family, it is an evolving garden within the heart of the historic village of Haddenham.
Group value:
- with the Grade + listed Turn End, Middle Turn and The Turn, with which it is indivisibly connected.
See Register entry for detailed description (B4).