Mounton House

The Birth and Rebirth of an Edwardian Country Home

Helena Gerrish

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English

Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
01 November 2022

Art & design styles: Arts & Crafts style; Residential buildings, domestic buildings; History of architecture

The most ambitious project of Henry Avray Tipping, the influential architectural editor of Country Life, Mounton was a new country house and garden, designed without limitations of expense to be the perfect expression of his immense knowledge of history, architecture and horticulture. All was designed to impress a distinguished social circle. However, within weeks of its completion, the Great War started. The world of English country-house living changed irrevocably, so Tipping never saw his hopes for the house come to fruition.

Featuring a wealth of previously unseen material including correspondence, articles and illustrations, this book insightfully details the design and building of the home H. Avray Tipping created for himself with the help of the young Chepstow architect Eric Carwardine Francis. It also gives a rich and evocative portrait of Tipping and his friends, with visits from Lloyd George and from Tipping’s gardening colleagues, including Harold Peto, Gertrude Jekyll and William Robinson. The grand layout of the Mounton gardens on the plateau above a limestone gorge included a 24-pillar pergola, terraces overlooking the Severn estuary, a two-storey tea house, a rock garden and remarkable and innovative water gardens.

Over time, the house was neglected and the magnificent gardens became overgrown. Mounton could so easily have been demolished and yet, a hundred years after Tipping completed it, a loving work of restoration of house and gardens was launched. The final two chapters reveal the careful adaptation of the interiors of Mounton House and the spectacular remaking of the gardens by the renowned garden designer Arne Maynard, all fully illustrated with plans and striking new photography. This is the story of the creation, destruction and regeneration of a singular vision.

By: Helena Gerrish
Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 294mm, Width: 240mm,
ISBN: 9781848225787
ISBN 10: 1848225784
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 November 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Helena Gerrish is a garden designer and writer, who contributes to Country Life amongst other publications, and previously published Edwardian Country Life - the Story of H. Avray Tipping. She has fully restored her own Tipping Garden at High Glanau Manor, also in Monmouthshire.

Reviews for Mounton House: The Birth and Rebirth of an Edwardian Country Home

‘a pleasure to read in one sitting’ ‘The book is lavishly illustrated, including both archive material and newly-commissioned photographs by John Campbell’ – Dr Paul Giangrande, Topiarius