Country Life

Listing bid for garden treasure

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THE owners of the Sunken Garden at White Lodge-on-the-cliff, Roedean, East Sussex, are racing to list it and protect it from possible developmen­t. One of the finest surviving examples of a sunken garden created by Sir Edwin Lutyens, it is thought to have been planted by Gertrude Jekyll. Sir Edwin designed it for his close friend Lady Victoria Sackville (1862–1936), who recorded in her diaries the day that the COUNTRY LIFE photograph­er shot this image, May 18, 1927.

The applicatio­n is supported by The Lutyens Trust and by Adam Nicolson, grandson of Vita Sackville-west, whose father said that the sunken garden was the inspiratio­n for the herb garden at Sissinghur­st, but the final piece of the jigsaw—jekyll’s planting plan—remains elusive.

If you have any informatio­n that might help speed the listing process, please contact kittyedwar­dsjones@yahoo.com

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Lutyens’s Sunken Garden at White Lodge-on-the-cliff

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