The Crown House
This former coaching inn on the original London to Newmarket road is situated in the tranquil…
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Built in 1875 as a family home for Audley End’s Head Gardener, this handsome three-bedroom red-brick house signalled the Head Gardener’s status as one of Audley End’s most senior servants. Empty for several years, English Heritage has given the property a new lease of life as a cosy and energy-efficient holiday cottage with views over the walled kitchen garden and stable courtyard. Sleeping up to six guests, The Head Gardener’s House features three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a spacious lounge and a family kitchen. Whilst the design will reflect modern tastes, there will be floral motifs throughout to mirror the history of the property.
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The Head Gardeners House
Audley End House, Audley End, SAFFRON WALDEN, Essex, CB11 4JF
Phone:
07771 974659
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Discover Essex
Essex is full of pleasant surprises. It has the largest coastline of any county in England, with its fair share of castles, royal connections and scenic valleys. Take Colchester, for example, which was built by the Romans and is Britain’s oldest recorded town. Its castle contains the country’s largest Norman keep and yet, a stone’s throw from here, East Anglia’s newest arts centre promises to put Colchester firmly on the map as Essex’s capital of culture.
Tidal estuaries are plentiful and their mudflats offer migrating birds a winter feeding place. Essex was known as the land of the East Saxons and for centuries people from all over Europe settled here, each wave leaving its own distinctive cultural and social mark on the landscape. Walking a little off the beaten track will lead you to the rural retreats of deepest Essex, while all over the county there are ancient monuments to explore:
- the great Waltham Abbey
- Greensted, thought to be the oldest wooden church in the world
- the delightful village of Pleshey has one of the finest examples of a former motte-and-bailey castle
- Hedingham Castle, magnificently preserved and dating from the 11th century.
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