Burton Agnes Hall & Gardens

The Hall is filled with treasures collected and commissioned by the family over the centuries. The original Elizabethan carving and plasterwork still decorates many rooms, while there are some lovely examples of Georgian fumiture and porcelain and, collected this century, many modem French and English paintings of the Impressionist Schools.

The Long Gallery, which spans the length of the house on the third floor with panoramic views to Bridlington Bay, houses some of the most recent commissions which include: a tapestry by Kaffe Fassett, embroidery by Janet Haigh and fumiture by John Makepeace.

Beside the present Hall is the old Norman Manor House, now encased in brick, but you can still see the lower chamber with its massive piers and groined and vaulted roof, with the Great Hall above.

Over a hundred yew topiary bushes, and lawns, surround the house. On the eastem aspect there is a classical pond with fountains and a newly constructed pebble mosaic. On going through the small gate into the old Elizabethan walled garden you feel rather like Alice in Wonderland and enter another world fÌlled with flowers, scents and colour. You will find a potager fÌlled with herbs and vegetables, herbaceous borders, a maze, fruit beds, a jungle garden with large leaved plants, grasses and bamboos planted in gravel surrounded by a bamboo hedge, a campanula garden containing a national collection of campanulas, a giant knot garden with colour theme gardens divided by a trellis instead of hedges, each containing a paved area forming a giant game board with a chess board in a central sunken area.

To the north of the house there is a woodland walk which has recently being planted as an aboretum walk and has a number of wildlife sculptures amoungst the trees.

In the courtyard there   are   two   shops,   an   artist’s   gallery,  a children’s comer, a cafe and ice-cream parlour as well as a wide selection of plants for sale - all propagated from the garden.

Burton Agnes Hall & Gardens is open from the 1st April until the 31st October, also the  woodland gardens will be open in February for the snowdrops.  The farmshop, grounds and cafe will be open throughout the winter although for a limited number of days in January and March.

Burton Agnes Hall & Gardens

nr Driffield E.Yorks 

Telephone 01262 490324