Crichel House is a Grade I listed, Classical Revival country house near the village of Moor Crichel in Dorset, England.
The present house was built in 1742 by Sir William Napier.
It is surrounded by of parkland, which includes a crescent-shaped lake.
The parkland is Grade II listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Italian Garden. Designed by Harold Ainsworth Peto(1854 - 1933).
In 1905-06, the second Lord Alington commissioned Harold Peto to lay out a formal garden below the south facade of the House.
This comprised a geometrical parterre surrounded by panels of lawn and specimen topiary.
Enclosed by balustrades to the east, south, and west, the garden, known as the Italian Garden, was planted in such a way as to retain the view from the House to the lake.
A domed rotunda at the south-east end of the garden overlooked the lake in the valley below.
This garden was illustrated and described in articles published by Country Life in 1908 and 1925, but it fell into decline during the Second World War and was grassed over and removed after the Second World War.
The house was initially requisitioned by the Air Ministry in 1938 before becoming a home for Dumpton School and then Cranborne Chase School until 1961.
At this stage, the estate and house were taken back in hand by the Hon Mrs Marten, who comprehensively modernised the inside of the house and set out the northern part of the walled garden that you see today.
The estate was sold to Richard and Maureen Chilton in 2013 and they have continued with restoration work on the house, church and 3 acre walled garden with 7 individual secret gardens.
The National Garden Scheme gives unique access to this exceptional private garden.
The present house was built in 1742 by Sir William Napier.
It is surrounded by of parkland, which includes a crescent-shaped lake.
The parkland is Grade II listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Italian Garden. Designed by Harold Ainsworth Peto(1854 - 1933).
In 1905-06, the second Lord Alington commissioned Harold Peto to lay out a formal garden below the south facade of the House.
This comprised a geometrical parterre surrounded by panels of lawn and specimen topiary.
Enclosed by balustrades to the east, south, and west, the garden, known as the Italian Garden, was planted in such a way as to retain the view from the House to the lake.
A domed rotunda at the south-east end of the garden overlooked the lake in the valley below.
This garden was illustrated and described in articles published by Country Life in 1908 and 1925, but it fell into decline during the Second World War and was grassed over and removed after the Second World War.
The house was initially requisitioned by the Air Ministry in 1938 before becoming a home for Dumpton School and then Cranborne Chase School until 1961.
At this stage, the estate and house were taken back in hand by the Hon Mrs Marten, who comprehensively modernised the inside of the house and set out the northern part of the walled garden that you see today.
The estate was sold to Richard and Maureen Chilton in 2013 and they have continued with restoration work on the house, church and 3 acre walled garden with 7 individual secret gardens.
The National Garden Scheme gives unique access to this exceptional private garden.
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