Land for sale

Upper Lansdown Mews, Bath BA1

Beckford Gardens is a relatively intact section of historic garden, terraces and walls that encircle what was William Beckford’s nursery garden just North of his house on Lansdown Crescent. The terraces themselves were used by Beckford to access the Embattled Gateway, a castellated folly which served as the entry to Beckford created picturesque landscape.

The gardens themselves, comprise; two terraces with a pathway leading up from Upper Lansdown Mews. They provide a wonderful quiet setting and would offer a splendid extension to the gardens of anyone currently living in the vicinity.

Alternatively, subject to obtaining any necessary planning permission it would provide any ideal opportunity for the location of a home office or garden room.

The garden and the walls are listed and were built around 1825-1830 with the involvement of the architect Henry Edmund Goodridge. It is a relatively complete wall and terraced garden with the terraces to the North, East and West representing the first and only surviving evidence of Beckford’s Rise, a well documented designed landscape.

These beautiful gardens have a pedestrian access leading off Upper Lansdown Mews, a quiet backwater within a prime residential area of Bath.

The city centre of Bath is within a relatively short walk with a pathway leading off All Saints Road down to the local shops and amenities within St James’s Square.

The unesco World Heritage City of Bath offers a wonderful array of chain and independent retail outlets, many fine restaurants, cafes and wine bars and a number of well-respected cultural activities which include a world-famous music and literary festival, The Roman Baths and Pump Rooms, along with the newly refurbished One Royal Crescent and Holburne Museums.

Communications include a direct line to London Paddington, Bristol and South Wales from Bath Spa Railway Station, the M4 Motorway is approx. 8 miles to the north and Bristol Airport is 18 miles to the west.