We are delighted to announce that we have just won the Quality Of Place Award for Pure Conservation. Run by Suffolk Coastal Council it was announced on the 1st October and we collected the award with Antony Major from The Whitworth Partnership Group.
Full details can be found on the Council's website by clicking here...
The previous owners had created two new access tracks without permission. Our first endeavour was to put back the previous tracks
We always think the start of summer is marked by the birth of the Trumpeter cygnets. We have two very strong ones and two very proud parents. For those coming to visit us through Invitation to View, we are greatly looking forward to seeing you.
We are delighted to be able to confirm that the outbuildings known as Lodge Farm are now back as a key part of Letheringham Lodge. Although always curtilage, they were in separate ownership from 2010 but are now in safe hands. More pictures to follow.
The Lodge is surrounded by the acid colour of rapeseed. The swans are nesting on five eggs this year and everything is looking brighter and happier than it has done for a very long time. Roll on June.
oculion: a word to describe an open-arched pavilion with an oculus
Co-designed with John Esling, the oculion will take over 2 years to fully realise. However, the first willows have been planted this week. Two sculptural benches are now being worked on to go in the centre which will allow two people to stare through the oculus together.
Project collaborators: John Esling, Pauline and Matthew Bickerton.
Photography and images created by John Esling from hedgery-gardens.co.uk
Our thanks to John for not only being a delight to co-create with but for transforming into being a lovely new friend together with his magical wife Rachael.
Philip Aiken's report is now fully on-line and proposes the idea that the roof was four gabled and possibly supported a lantern - a room with glass on all sides. With the price of glass being astronomical in 1472, this would have made Letheringham Lodge a truly outstanding building. To read the report, just visit the History Section and click on 'what the historians say'.
We are delighted with the stunning work of our friend John Esling who has laid all the hedges to the south of the Lodge. More can be found on his website: www.hedgery-gardens.co.uk
He is currently creating an Oculion as a 5 year collaborative project with us. More to follow ...
