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Montacute House and Garden

This is a magnificent Elizabethan stone-built house, filled with historic treasures. It has a Long Gallery with superb Elizabethan artwork from the National Portrait Gallery exhibition which is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2007. There is also a fantastic exhibition of 17th-century textile samplers.

Montacute was chosen as a location for the 1995 film of Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility'. The Sunny hamstone of the fine Elizabethan house is complimented by the strong colours of formal mixed borders and a rich tapestry of greens. The historic rose borders retain the original Vita Sackville West plan. This treasured garden is completed by a fig walk, orangery, cedar lawn and spectacular yew hedges