Just a quick note to remind you all that Waresley Grange, in Manor Farm Road, Waresley is holding an Open Garden this coming Sunday, that’s the 24th of June. Entry is £5, which goes to the Red Cross, a worthy cause.
This Open Garden presents an excellent opportunity to get to see the new entrance drive, the refurbishments to the lake and the other changes to the garden which have recently been completed. For those who haven’t been there before, I recommend that you take this chance to see, not only the beautiful gardens but also the house. The building now called the Grange is the most complete building left from the former Waresley Park, once the home of Lord Feversham and the southern branch of the Duncombe family. (Hence the village pub is called the Duncombe Arms).
The House itself was demolished in 1930 and the Estate was broken up and sold off by piecemeal auction in 1932. The Grange was originally the coach house and stable block and still retains the clock tower over what was once the entrance to the courtyard. The present owners have had the lantern painstakingly restored.
With a little imagination, one can be transported back to a time when carriage wheels and hoofs crunched on the gravel drive outside on their way up to the big house for their daily duties…..
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