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  1. The house also has a close historic and visual connection with the listed monuments in Abbey Gardens to the east, which are associated with Edwin Trendell, who resided at Old Abbey House between 1847 and 1900.

  2. About Abbey House. Typically Scottish in its simplicity of detailing, the doorway is emphasised by a pilastered entrance and appears to be more grand than it actually is. The building has been extended to the west but since the style is the same, the visual effect is negligible. Behind Abbey House are the Abbey Gardens.

  3. Abbey House Gardens. A sixteenth century house with a 5 acre garden in the centre of Malmesbury. The garden has been developed by the Pollards, who bought Abbey House in 1994. There is a Knot Garden with a well, laburnum tunnel and extensive collections of roses and herbs.

  4. Abbey House Gardens is a country house garden in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England, covering 5 acres (2.0 ha). The garden was transformed in the 1990s by the so-called Naked Gardeners: Ian and Barbara Pollard.

  5. 2 days ago · Consider the gothic country house from a Victorian woman’s perspective. It is both a refuge and a cage, a world that she is expected to inhabit and yet never owns. In the role of the ‘household general,’ according to Mrs Beaton, it is the woman’s responsibility to create order out of the chaos of a home, to ensure comfort, convenience ...

  6. The history of Abbotsbury & The Abbey House. The abbey of St Peter at Abbotsbury housed a Benedictine community founded in 1044 by Orc, a house steward of King Cnut.

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  8. Immediately south of the Abbey House and east of the kitchen garden there are two walled enclosures. That to the west is called the Drying Yard and it connects with the passage from The Grove and with a similar passage running east to west along the southern end of the site.