Serles House
Last Visited: 2010
The Sunken Garden
Originally billed as The Secret Garden, Serles House may no longer be a secret, but is still deserves to be better known.
Unusually for the National Gardens Scheme, you not only get to see the garden but also the interior of the house. Both are the creation of the owner, Ian Willis, a mildly eccentric Interior Designer.
From the street, Serles House is a large smart, but otherwise unremarkable, Victorian semi-detached house.
Yorick Fireplace
Step inside, however and youʼre back in Willisʼs lovingly re-created (and, where necessary, re-interpreted) Victorian interior, complete with many fixtures and fittings from the period.
However, it only once you have been through the house and step out into the garden that the magic really begins. Part garden, part museum, part sculpture park, all blended together with the eye of a master. An amazing achievement.
For opening times etc., please see the National Gardens Scheme web site.
