Watercolour of the UK's most beautiful houses and it has a pool.
 
Mapperton gardens are a celebrated valley‑style garden that tumble down a steep north–south combe behind the Jacobean house, blending formal Italianate terraces with more informal, romantic woodland planting.
 
The core is a 15‑acre Italianate garden laid out in the 1920s by Ethel Labouchere, spread over several terraces that step down about 250 metres from the house into the valley.
 
The upper levels include enclosed walled gardens, a croquet lawn, an orangery, and formal parterres, while the middle and lower levels open into ponds, an arboretum, and wilder “wild garden” sections.
 
Formal terraces painted above: The house side has a Fountain Court, topiary‑lined walks, herbaceous borders, statues, and grottoes, creating a highly structured, almost theatrical backdrop to the house.
 
Interesting fact...
As beautiful as this place is there is a darker history includes tales of violence and executions. In the late 16th century: one occupant of the manor was linked to a murder, and a local Catholic missionary priest was also executed within a few years of each other in Elizabethan times, with prison letters surviving from both.