Garden

At Ascott House and Gardens mellow, modern spaces sit amid the grand designs in the contemporary Lynnn Garden, landscaped circles meet moated island and infinity pools..  Find a peaceful seat among the flowers and enjoy the moving water and busy bees in the planted beds. Meanwhile in the lower part of the Gardens, the jagged Cornish slates of the Ascott Circle add texture and a burst of modern art

An iconic piece of the Gardens is Ascott’s vast Topiary Sundial. This huge evergreen timepiece is made from neatly-trimmed hedges of box and yew. Its Roman numerals are framed by a fitting motto: “light & shade by turn but love always”.

You can stroll along the 100-yard Madeira Walk beside borders of delphiniums and old roses – a riot of mauve, lilac and blue – ore explore the leafy garden and fragrant Scented Walk.

In Spring you can wander among apparently endless sweeps of glorious daffodils with the daffodils carpeting the ground under swathes of trees.  The elegant Magnolia Dell fills with delicate blooms.  Vibrant tulips pack the Dutch Garden.   Playful. Restful. Joyful. The Gardens surrounding Ascott House are an endless delight

House

Ascott House, sometimes referred to as simply Ascott, is a Grade II* listed building in the  hamlet of Ascott near Wing in BuckinghamshireIt is set in a 32-acre / 13 hectare estate. Ascott House was originally a farm house, built in the reign of James1 and known as "Ascott Hall". In 1873 it was acquired by Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild  (of the neighbouring Mentor Towers Estate). The  Rothschild family had begun to acquire vast tracts of land in Buckinghamshire earlier in the century, on which they built a series of large mansions from 1852 onwards. Baron Mayer gave the house at Ascott to his nephew Leopold de Rothschild, who transformed it over the following decades into the substantial yet informal house.