page_title: Goddards House and Garden
section_title: Garden
hierarchical_section_title: Goddards House and Garden / Design / Garden
caption_attribution_description: English: Goddards House and Garden, York (Grade I Listed building - Ref no. 1256461) - August 2018. View of the lily pool and part of former rose garden, the layout of which can been seen by cropmarks on the lawn.
context_page_description: Goddards House and Garden is an Arts and Crafts house in Dringhouses, York, England. It was built in 1927 for Noel and Kathleen Terry of the famed chocolate-manufacturing family Terry's with the house designed by local architect Walter Brierley and the garden by George Dillistone.
  The National Trust acquired the property in 1984 to use as regional offices and the garden and parts of the house are open to visitors with displays telling the story of the family and their confectionery business. The house is a Grade I listed building and the carriage entrance to the property is Grade II* listed.
context_section_description: In 1925 George Dillistone, a landscape architect from Tunbridge Wells who worked with Lutyens at Castle Drogo, was hired to design the garden at Goddards. The design evolved over a number of years and plans were still being developed as late as 1935, by which time Dillistone had become vice-president of the Institute of Landscape Architects. In-keeping with the style of the house the four acre garden at Goddards was divided into several distinct areas, including a terrace and a series of rooms separated by shrubs, hedges and a herbaceous border; all of these elements illustrate the Arts and Crafts nature of the garden.
  The enclosures included a tennis court (restored in 2016) and a bowling green used as a croquet lawn. The centrepiece of the garden is a cruciform lily pool which is fed from a semi-circular reflecting pool and was originally surrounded by a rose garden. Beyond this area the garden slopes downwards to York Racecourse, (Knavesmire) across which it was possible to walk to where, in 1926, Terry's had built their factory, with its distinctive clock tower visible from the garden. Typical of this style of garden the landscaping becomes less formal further from the house with paths leading down through a rock garden at the far end of the garden.
  The wildlife in the garden included a colony of midwife toads, also referred to as bell toads, and it was once home to a number of exotic pets including axolotls and green lizards which were introduced into the garden in the early 1930s. In 2016 the National Trust revealed plans to recreate the original planting schemes drawn up by Dillistone almost ninety years earlier.
caption: The lawn beside the lily pool was originally a rose garden, the layout of which is revealed by cropmarks.[10]
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