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

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The well-planned and versatile living accommodation comprises to the ground floor; reception hall, study/ fifth bedroom, lounge, open plan kitchen/ breakfast/ family room with stunning glass roof lantern, dining room, utility and a WC/ cloakroom. The first floor offers four double bedrooms (two benefitting En-suite facilities) as well as a family bathroom.

a b c Cadw. "Mounton House(Grade II*) (24061)". National Historic Assets of Wales . Retrieved 17 May 2020. Cadw. "Mounton House (PGW(Gt)8(MON))". National Historic Assets of Wales . Retrieved 6 February 2023. Cadw. "East Courtyard buildings at Mounton House(Grade II) (24079)". National Historic Assets of Wales . Retrieved 17 May 2020. In 2002, it was converted into 17 dwellings and the garden was left to decay. Since its conversion, the current owners have systematically bought up units and now own the whole house. Taking a most scholarly and sensitive approach, they have restored Tipping’s interiors and overseen a remarkable re-creation of his gardens. Arne Maynard Garden Design was appointed in 2016 and work is still going on. Mounton House, Mounton, Monmouthshire, Wales, is the last major country house built in the county, constructed between 1910 and 1912 by the architect and writer Henry Avray Tipping for himself. Formerly a school, which has now relocated to the grounds, the house has been divided into apartments. It is a Grade II* listed building. The surrounding park is on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.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. Cadw. "Vine Pergola at Mounton House(Grade II) (24074)". National Historic Assets of Wales . Retrieved 17 May 2020. The house itself, the perfect unity of vernacular architecture with liberal use of oak panelling, the mullion windows and delightful sweep of the stone tiled roofs reminded me of houses designed by Edwin Lutyens, but in fact was a collaboration between Tipping and a young Chepstow architect Eric Carwardine Francis. From a charming garden room (Tipping loved an outside loggia where he could eat whenever the weather was clement) I surveyed the upper and lower western terraces and the octagonal pool below from which a flight of moss covered steps led to the wild garden in a wooded valley. Hidden beneath ivy and brambles, a rustic path winding under species rhododendrons led me down to the remains of an old grist mill and a stream which meandered between ferns and Rodgersia, which live in the shadow of ancient oaks and cherry trees. Returning to the formal garden, I found to the south, a four bedded plat with a rustic stone tank set into the wall with steps leading to a swimming pool surrounded by concrete and lamp posts. Beyond were nut trees obscuring the remains of a pergola with four huge cylindrical columns set against a high shaped wall. Through a gate in the wall, there was a dilapidated forty foot glasshouse with beaver tale glass and cast iron ratchets which opened all the windows. The south elevation and kitchen wing look into the walled orchard and have lower roofs. Mullion-and-transom windows on the ground floor, 3 and 4-light windows above, 4-light flat topped dormer in the end of the main range.

All of the footpaths should be signposted from tarmac roads and way-marked with yellow arrows at various stages along the footpath. If you follow the general direction of these you are unlikely to go wrong. 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.Cadw. "1, Mounton House Cottages(Grade II) (24075)". National Historic Assets of Wales . Retrieved 17 May 2020. The garden front has projecting gabled wings at either end of a 3-window section with mullion-and-transom windows on the ground floor and slate hanging above. Two and 4-light windows as before. A third gabled wing in the centre has a 3-light mullion-and-transom window over a 4-light mullion-and-2-transoms one. Loggia (now closed) at south west corner, former openings with arched keyed heads and 20 over 8 panes to the infill. The north west corner gable has an open loggia below a 3-light mullion-and-transom window. Lead downpipes and hopper heads, some marked HAT (Henry Avray Tipping) and dated 1912. Cadw. "North Pergola at Mounton House(Grade II) (24081)". National Historic Assets of Wales . Retrieved 17 May 2020. Mounton House, now a special school for boys, was built as a country house in the Arts and Crafts style in 1914 by Henry Avray Tipping, a leading garden designer and writer, assisted by the local architect Eric Francis.

A view looking out across several fields, towards the Second Severn Crossing, from the road to Mounton. The more I worked in the garden, the more intrigued I became with the man who created such a paradise. I found he had written many important books - nine huge volumes on country houses, books on furniture and wood carving, a book on garden history and a practical garden book, as well as the garden column for the Observer and Morning Post. I slowly bought those books on the internet and in old book shops, and began to research the story of his life. By now I was so interested in Tipping that I went to Bristol University to take a Masters degree in Garden History, writing my dissertation on the life and work of Henry Avray Tipping. Cadw. "Garden Walls at Mounton House(Grade II) (24078)". National Historic Assets of Wales . Retrieved 17 May 2020. bedroom property for sale in Mounton House Park, Pwllmeyric, Chepstow, NP16". Rightmove.co.uk . Retrieved 2017-08-13. Cadw. "Teahouse at Mounton House(Grade II) (24080)". National Historic Assets of Wales . Retrieved 17 May 2020.

Included at II* as an important early C20 country house, designed as a whole and constructed 1910-1912 by H Avray Tipping and Eric Francis; and as a part of the significant layout consisting of the house, the ancilliary buildings and the garden features which make a very complete landscape ensemble for the period. External Links