REVIEW AND ANALYSIS 27 earlier designs, disrupting natural flow around the pleasure grounds. Similarly, the terraces disrupted the flowing landforms of the wider site and connection to the parkland. HOW? When considering change on our estate an ‘experience design’ approach is frequently adopted, which requires a full understanding of our audience composition and the development of a proposition. Allied to this, site-wide plans are developed so that any given project is not developed in isolation. A spatial planning exercise was undertaken at Berrington underpinned by two excellent conservation management plans, the one for the hall by Avalon and Wreyland in 2023, and one for the grounds and walled kitchen garden by Gallagher and Lovie in 2017. As designs developed, impact assessments were undertaken on the options to ensure that the best outcome was achieved. WHO? The design work for this project was undertaken by Ed Higgins, National Trust landscape architect, working with a range of National Trust consultants at regional and national level. The project was a truly collaborative piece of work drawing in a range of regional consultants and opinions and reflections from the statutory stakeholders. WHAT? The historic plan which illustrates the earliest relationship of the walled garden to the house and then their relationship to the garden and parkland setting dates from 1815. From this and from the plans prepared for sales particulars in 1887, curved design lines can be seen. Gallagher and Lovie’s conservation management plan suggests that the walkways offered a contrast, through a sense of enclosure by walls and planting, to open vistas across the park to the landscape beyond. Circular routes around the pleasure grounds contributed to the way the garden was intended to be explored, with each area gradually unfolding into the next. The reveal of the courtyard would have been impressive. Undoubtedly carriages followed this sweeping route, not the regimented linear route inherited by the National Trust. The 1903 OS maps shows us that within two years of new owners acquiring Berrington substantial The new sweeping path from the triumphal arch to the hall’s courtyard: the clipped yews which once lined the Edwardian route were moved and have now gone brown, but are expected to recover. (All photos this page: Jonathan Taylor) The courtyard entrance from the courtyard side: the whole route was planned to impress the visitor, from triumphal arch, across the sweeping drive with its broad vistas and into the classical architecture of the courtyard.
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