Aerial view showing the new buildings and their close relationship to the existing house and landscape at Benham Park, Berkshire, United Kingdom (painting by Chris Draper)

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Benham Park

Berkshire, UK


Henry Holland's remarkable house at Benham Park is sited to get the most impact from the wonderful views that look out across Capability Brown's great lake. It's front elevation faces south with the ground behind rising in a series of terraces so that the gardens at the rear benefit even more from the sunny southern aspect as they rise with increasingly splendid views over the roof top of Henry Holland's architectural jewel which nestles in the foreground below.

With Henry Holland's house providing such gracious space for entertaining friends and guests this is an opportunity to combine rooms with the grace and manners of a bygone era, with new buildings of equal architectural quality designed to accommodate a contemporary twenty first century lifestyle that takes full advantage of all the latest technology so as to provide a comfortable, convenient and an ultimately beautiful home.

The design takes its inspiration from the Italian formal gardens of the renaissance and the ambitious landscapes schemes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in England.

View illustrating the dramatic cascading gardens (the existing house was built by Henry Holland with garden by Capability Brown, for William, 6th Baron Craven, in 1775) (painting by Chris Draper)

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Benham Park

Berkshire, UK


Henry Holland's remarkable house at Benham Park is sited to get the most impact from the wonderful views that look out across Capability Brown's great lake. It's front elevation faces south with the ground behind rising in a series of terraces so that the gardens at the rear benefit even more from the sunny southern aspect as they rise with increasingly splendid views over the roof top of Henry Holland's architectural jewel which nestles in the foreground below.

With Henry Holland's house providing such gracious space for entertaining friends and guests this is an opportunity to combine rooms with the grace and manners of a bygone era, with new buildings of equal architectural quality designed to accommodate a contemporary twenty first century lifestyle that takes full advantage of all the latest technology so as to provide a comfortable, convenient and an ultimately beautiful home.

The design takes its inspiration from the Italian formal gardens of the renaissance and the ambitious landscapes schemes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in England.