Doubling as Alconleigh in the BBC’s adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, Rousham’s somewhat stolid Caroline house with its fret of battlements gives only the merest hint of what is to be ...

Rousham and its landscape garden is practically a place of pilgrimage ... a sham ruin known as the ‘Eyecatcher’. The house, built in 1635 by Sir Robert Dormer, is still in the ownership ...

Rousham House, in Oxfordshire, stands in for the exterior shots of Alconleigh. Nestling in the first great English landscape garden, the chunky, castellated, original house has been in the ...

Kent stretched Rousham’s relatively small garden of just 25 acres by adding ... A Scheemakers gladiator dies picturesquely to one side of the house and bowling-green lawn. A path plunges into ...

The grounds at Rousham, meanwhile ... but for me the loveliest part was the grassy moat garden surrounding the house. We spent that evening in Cambridge, checking into the Hotel du Vin, by ...

The Oxfordshire Gardens Trust was launched in the famous William Kent landscaped garden at Rousham House, near Bicester, last night. A handful of enthusiasts has spent eight months setting up the ...

The first major exhibition dedicated to William Kent (1685-1748) opens March 22 at the Victoria & Albert Museum. It seeks to establish this multitalented designer as one of the major figures in ...