This house and garden was built about 1810 in the Indian style with a center dome, minarets, peacock tail windows and pavillions. The orginal builder had worked in India and seemingly got a lot of the style right. The house tours (which are timed, again get there early) are actually very interesting. The house is still occupied by a young family--the property is a large acreage with farms and rental houses, and the garden is rented out for weddings, etc. There was a tent going up the day we visited. Robyn thought the house was much more interesting than the garden, and I agree. The stream garden, redesigned by Graham Thomas, is quite beautiful in the early autumn. There are fabulous specimans of gigantic trees (again to protect from the Cotswold winds), but unless you are into the arboretum look, the house is where it's at.
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