Wayford Manor House is a country house with a garden in Britain, situated in

Wayford Wayford is a village and civil parish on the River Axe, south-west of Crewkerne, in the South Somerset district of Somerset, England. History The parish was part of the hundred of Crewkerne. Wayford Manor House was rebuilt around 1600 by Cha ...

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, England. It has been designated a Grade I

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House

The house includes a central range which was rebuilt about 1600 on the site of an earlier building by Charles Daubeney, probably with William Arnold as master mason. The north wing was completed in 1900 by architect Sir

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Garden

Work on the gardens, including terraces and archways was carried out by

Harold Peto Harold Ainsworth Peto FRIBA (11 July 1854 – 16 April 1933) was a British architect, landscape architect and garden designer, who worked in Britain and in Provence, France. Among his best-known gardens are Iford Manor, Wiltshire; Buscot P ...

around 1902. Peto was the brother of the wife of Lawrence Ingham Baker when he bought the house. The current

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garden is partly built on the site of an earlier Elizabethan garden. It includes a Japanese garden and a collection of mature trees, along with a rock garden, orchard and shrubs. The garden is listed Grade II on the

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. Wayford Woods, close to the house, has an ornamental lake and is known for its large number of

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