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Briery Hall, Gloucestershire

Rachael Emous-Austin CMLI

With the River Severn a few hundred metres away, Briery Hall is a very low lying site with a water table that fluctuates with the tide.An Alhambra style water garden forms the garden room relating to the living room, and captures the morning sun – beautifully carved limestone edges to pool and caps the boundary wall – three mature olive trees provide the division to the wider orchard landscape.An outdoor kitchen pavilion, complete with wood-fired pizza oven contains the entertainment terrace. This area connects to the roof terrace and hot tub area and has plenty of seating and diving space, planting in this area includes a lavender and rose hedge, scenting the seating area and a herb garden within reach of the kitchen.The 20x10m natural swimming pool is cleaned by bio-filters and constructed using insulated panels, meaning that it requires minimal heating and absolutely no chemicals to maintain. Edged in thick French limestone and a wooden decking, this pool is completed by a pavilion which also combines as a pump house and store.The main lawn is edged by a Japanese themed planting border with birch tree walk and a wildflower planted mound has been sculpted to create an area from which to view the garden.

Overview

Location

Location 

Longney, Gloucestershire

Category

Garden Swimming Pool and Outdoor Structures

Landscape Architect

Rachael Emous-Austin CMLI

Client

Private

Brief

The brief was to create a garden for the house from the paddocks which surround it, recently planted with a cider apple orchard.  The design strategy was to create a masterplan showing a series of rooms and this required a collaborative approach from the landscape and architectural team at an early stage as incorporating small pavilion structures, integrated seating and sculptural lighting elements were central to the scheme.

Awards

Longney, Gloucestershire

Details

Project Team

Austin Design Works – Landscape Architecture – All design work Austin Design Works – All structural Design Peter Rushton, Contractor Clear Water Revival – Natural Swimming Pool Contractor Stroud Electrical Services – Electrician Gloucester Street Forge – Steel staircase Meridian Forge – Bench Construction De Havilland – Structural Steelwork Paul Deakin Furniture – All Woodwork. Stone Art Cotswold Ltd – Water features, steps and pool edgings.

Local planning authority or government body

Stroud District Council

Year Completed

May 2016

Project Size

10 acres

Technical's

Planting

Detailed planting plans supplied by Austin Design Works and interpreted by the contractor. Including Mediterranean, Japanese and woodland planting schemes as well as wildflower and wetland specifications. Mature trees supplied by Kingsdown Nursery, Swindon and Wyvale Nursery. Nursery stock supplied by Springwood Wholesale Nursery, Almondsbury

Materials

CED Plank paving and CDeck with barleycorn gravel to pathways edged in black painted mild steel. French Limestone to water features and pool edge, supplied and fitted by Stone Art Cotswold Ltd. Accoya wood used throughout both beech and ash.

Contractors 

Rachael Emous-Austin CMLI

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Location

Longney, Gloucestershire

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