Bonython Manor

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Bonython Manor House, West front.

Bonython Manor near Cury, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom is an estate garden on the Lizard peninsula. Since 1999 the owners have been Mr & Mrs Richard Nathan^[1]

1 Location
2 Garden
3 Architecture of house
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Location

It is located five miles south of Helston, on main A3083 Helston to Lizard Road,turn Left at Cury Cross Lanes (Wheel Inn) and the entrance is 300yds on the right.

[edit] Garden

Magnificent 20-acre colour garden including sweeping hydrangea drive to Georgian manor house (not open to the public). Herbaceous walled garden, potager with vegetables and picking flowers; three lakes in valley planted with ornamental grasses, perennials and South African flowers.

[edit] Architecture of house

"Pevsner":

"BONYTHON. Late C18. A delightful granite house of basement and two storeys. Five bays. Eight wide steps with curving handrails rise to the doorway, with fanlight above and wide rusticated surround. The central bay is brought slightly forward. Venetian window above, and a slight pediment with small; fan-shaped window. Four stone balls on hexagonal pillars cap the pediment. Exceptionally elegant. "Pevsner" Buildings of England: Cornwall^[2]

[edit] References

^ The Nathans arrived in 1999: The Cornwall Gardens Guide by Douglas Ellory Pett, pp28-29. Previewed on Google Booksearch (accessed 16 January 2008)
^ Buildings of England: Cornwall by Nikolaus Pevsner, 2nd edition revised by Enid Radcliffe; Yale 1970 ISBN 0-300-09589-9. page 62 - Article on Cury. These remarks are credited to G.M. Trinick, not Pevsner, himself (Footnote, p 62).