Nottinghamshire holiday house: Teversal Old Village

Teversal Manor & Gardens: Teversal Manor was the dowerhouse of Lady Canarvon and is believed to have been the inspiration for D. H. Lawrence's Wragby Hall in Lady Chatterley's Lover. The impressive gardens at Teversal include to the west of the house the remnants of a walled pear orchard which is now a beautiful ornamental pond garden. This area has its own microclimate that enables many unusual and tender plants to survive, and is landscaped with a series of mounds that give rise to many different views and aspects. The visitor can stroll along the walled border between the rows of lavender- siit and view the panorama from the elevated gazebo - work their way round the garden to an unusual ornamental vegetable maze surrounded by a pergola walkway. The impressive terraces at the rear of the house include a south facing top terrace originally thought to be a croquet lawn. This leads down to a further three terraces once described as .....remains of a hanging garden on a magnificent scale were existing in 1831

History: One of the few descriptions of the house interior (from Wrights Directory) describes white embossed stucco frescoes in the dining parlour depicting rural scenery, hawking the story of Actaeon turned into a stag by Diana. These are sadly no longer in evidence. The Manor House had been severely damaged by fire in the past and many of its interesting features supposedly plundered and removed to nearby Hardwick Hall. The house had fallen into a state of decay by the end of the 18th Century until it was renovated by Hon Henrietta Anne Howard Molyneux who in 1830 married Lord Porchester who was to become the 3rd Earl of Carnarvon. Lord Carnarvon financed the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. Up by the house was a croquet lawn and to the east a grass tennis court. Here her son Aubrey Herbert, the dashing Secret Service Agent who was the model for John Buchan's novel Greenmantle played games with literary visitors like Virginia Woolf and reputedly D. H. Lawrence.

The Gatehouse overlooks the pretty church of St. Katherine's and the Manor Green.

Other Activities: Ten pin bowling.

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