The house comprises a converted farm building with a Victorian semi-detached front overlooking the castle grounds. An impressive horse chestnut tree is at the entrance to a winding drive through a walled garden planted with lawn, roses, daffodils, wildflower meadow grasses and various young trees and shrubs.
A yew hedge divides this side garden with a walled garden at the back of the house overlooking Bullcroft Park and planted with beech hedging, herbaceous borders, fruit trees and raised beds for vegetables.
Access: Wheelchair accessible
One half of a late Victorian home built by two sisters. A small walled garden with a terrace at the back; roses throughout with a large apple tree that lends shade across the back of the garden. This is the first season after a small aesthetic make-over.
Access: Wheelchair accessible. Enter through side door from High Street, along narrow alleyway. Steps onto lawn and terrace
Eighteenth century listed Georgian house (formerly 2 cottages) with an impressive medieval stone entrance. Small walled garden with many roses (including climbers), patio, small trees and bedding plants.
Access: Wheelchair access to a level terrace, 3 steps up to lawn
Listed Georgian house built in the 1760s with later Bath Stone front and former stables (now garage). Traditional walled cottage garden with many roses, hydrangeas, camellias, clematis, honeysuckle, hostas, jasmine, mock orange, lavender, rosemary, delphiniums, pinks, lupins, peony, ferns, lilac and two lemon trees.
An archway leads to a separate walled kitchen garden with herbs, peas, beans, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, squashes, climbing courgette, sweetcorn, fig tree, dahlias, rhubarb and blackcurrant.
Access: Wheelchair accessible but with a step up into garden and a small step into kitchen garden (NB narrow path)
Victorian house built in three stages between about 1850 and 1900. The garden is about a third of an acre with a hidden walled kitchen garden, a variety of ornamental & fruit trees, a wildflower area and more formal beds.
Access: Wheelchair accessible but there is a small lip into the garden and some surfaces are uneven
A garden using hardy perennial plants and, although small, uses the natural curves and undulations to lead the eye on to look around the corners.
Access: Wheelchair accessible
Victorian Gothic cottage with walled garden, once owned by William Blackstone the younger (1809-1881), who built Howbery Park.
The garden was a building site while the cottage was renovated in 2021/22. This will be its third season as a remodelled cottage garden with climbing roses, clematis, foxgloves, delphiniums and lavender, with hollyhocks and perennial geraniums along the Thames Street verge.
Access: Enter via Thames Street, wheelchair accessible but one step up from road to side gate entrance (NB narrow path)
Grade II listed and built around 1840, Bridge House and the Coach House are riverside properties sharing an ancient brick and flint wall around the two and a half acre site. Several mature rare trees, notably an American Coast Redwood, a Japanese Ginkgo and the remains of an apple orchard.
Bridge House garden has four formal beds by the house, a wide expanse of lawn leading down to the river and some woodland planting under a mature pine. There is an outstanding view of Wallingford Bridge from the lawn.
The Coach House garden, formerly the kitchen garden to Bridge House, is lawn with large shrub/herbaceous borders and a small veg patch.
Access: Enter through the gates to Bridge House and then follow the arrows to the two gardens. Much of the gardens are level and suitable for wheelchairs. There is a steep grass bank down to the lawn at Bridge House and a further slope to the bank of the river which is unprotected – take care
The garden at 8 Thames Street has a series of terraces leading down to the river. There are several mature trees, a pergola covered in roses and borders filled with a range of plants. This year we are attempting to turn one of our lawns into a wildflower meadow.
Access: Enter by side gate. Sorry not suitable for wheelchairs, some uneven gravel paths, steps and grass
The garden was originally part of the garden of the adjoining Riverside House and is supported by a decorative Norman Shaw boathouse.
Divided by a hornbeam hedge, there are herbaceous borders backed by vegetables, fruit trees, lawn and a shady walkway with views to the river.
Access: Entry by the side gate, some steps with hand rail, wheelchair access to the garden
We moved into number 14 two years ago. It was obvious that the garden had been well loved but had got out of hand. We set about removing a complete covering of ivy. Four huge tree stumps were ground out.
The small swimming pool was filled in, but it is still very much a work in progress. A garden room has just been added to enjoy our view year-round. We are more on the side of the tortoise than the hare.
Access: Wheelchair accessible but there is a slope up to the main lawn
End of listed early eighteenth century terrace. A corkscrew hazel dominates the end of the garden, with underplanting of hellebore and euphorbia. Various flowering shrubs, tree peony, amelanchier, mahonia, viburnum and a few roses.
Perennial geranium, vinca minor, brunnera and heuchera provide ground cover. There is a small pebble pond. There is a hedgehog feeding station visited every night from March to November
Access: Step down into the garden by using the side gate in the lane – Squires Walk – alongside the house
St John’s House is on the site of the medieval Hospice of St John but all that remains is the garden area that fronts St John’s Green. During WW2 the house was used by North American forces and subsequently the ground floor was a dental practice. The current owners removed tons of concrete to produce an informal garden, including grass and hiding places for grandchildren. In January and February the garden is carpeted with giant snow drops. Growing conditions are difficult but choisyas, alstroemeria and salvias do well.
Access: Wheelchair accessible