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6 unusual facts about Harold Peto


Bedford Lemere

Bedford Lemere & Co photographed buildings by notable architects; John Norton (architect), Matthew Digby Wyatt, Ernest George, Ernest George, Harold Peto, Arthur Blomfield, Alfred Waterhouse and Edward Blakeway I'Anson who designed Winterfold House in Surrey.

Bosquet

The garden at Easton Lodge, Essex, designed by Harold Peto inherited what was now called a bosquet but was originally a seventeenth-century garden wilderness, the "curious" English variant of the bosquet: "This ornamental grove or thicket was planted with native tree species approximately 400 years ago and originally included a path network of concentric circles and radiating lines." (ref. Easton Lodge)

Hartham Park

The house was remodelled and the grounds landscaped by Harold Peto including a Dutch water garden, subsequently largely overbuilt in a 1960s redevelopment.

Percy Stephen Cane

He owned and published the magazines My Garden Illustrated and Garden Design (1930), and was an admirer of Harold Peto's work.

West Dean, West Sussex

After the death of the last Peachey heir it became the home of William James in 1891 and in 1893 much of the house was remodelled to designs by Ernest George and Harold Peto.

Wookey Hole

Glencot House is a Grade II listed country house dating from 1887, by Ernest George and Harold Peto, for W. S. Hodgkinson.


West Dean House

When James moved to the West Dean Estate in 1891, he set about altering and greatly extending the house and commissioned Ernest George and Harold Peto to do so.


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