A family home, this beautiful house originally built in the 1660s was remodelled in the early 1700s in red brick with stone facings with a cantilevered staircase. New for 2011 see how Robert Mattock is establishing his significant collection of rare roses in the 2 1/2 acre walled garden and park already notable for its important collection of rare cultivated plants and trees. See rare snowdrops during February; followed by a collection of magnolias in March and wisterias during late April; old garden and specie roses in May and June; herbaceous borders in July and autumn colour and rose hips in September. The collection of Silk Road Hybrids in the new Mattock Rose Garden is being designed to illustrate how those roses that spread from China to Rome by 500 BC gave the western world roses that smell, and flower, so beautifully all summer long. Connecting the history of the house, the history of the Mattock family and the long horticultural tradition of Kingston Bagpuize and its adjoining parishes is a new exhibition of old photographs, catalogues, horticultural tools and machinery. Specialist horticultural tools, books and equipment may be bought in our garden shop.