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Througham Court was built in the 16th and 17th centuries by an experienced team of Gloucestershire masons. It is a delightful Cotswold manor house built of honey-coloured stone with stone slabbed roof standing within a terraced formal garden.

The house stands upon a rise, surveying a broad sweep of wooded landscape. Its many- gabled facade is punctuated at one point by a dovecote incorporated into the stonework above one of the windows.

The gardens are terraced and are divided into 'rooms'. The sunken garden leads to the white garden, which in turn leads to an elaborate kitchen garden. Once out of the old walled enclosure, one encounters a pear arbour, and then a newly created DNA Garden. Designs for the DNA Garden were provided by Jonathan Myles-Lea at the request of Dr Christine Facer, as she planned to create an area in the garden which would commemorate her career as a genetic scientist. The result is a box parterre based upon the figure of the Double Helix and a water feature surrounded by more formal planting. This was Jonathan Myles-Lea's first foray into garden design, and it was covered by the BBC Radio 4 Programme; 'Growing Spaces' in 1997.

 

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