Overview

This is an easy half hour visit, but there are steps to contend with as you wander through these lovely garden areas. Mallory court was built during 1914-1915 for mr James Thomas Holt by the designer Percy Morley Horder, and is a grade 11 listed building. You enter The main house along carriage courtyard, with an inviting frontage and ivy clad entrance (photo 1). WE HAVE ALREADY OFFERED 3 REVIEWS for what has become our favourite hotel. CHECK OUT MALLORY COURT. Todays visit concentrates on their lovely gardens, which are well maintained, and full of interesting designs, and colourful shrubs and specimen trees. From the main entrance, go over to the left, the West corner, and go through a gap in the hedgerow to enter the rose garden (photo 2) enclosed to the north by a Hornbeam hedge, with a level lawn with geometrical beds, planted with a good selection of roses, delightful in the summer months, but rather bear in Autumn as our photo shows, and in the centre of the bed, a stone-edged pool with a small fountain. Running alongside the rose garden, and away from the house, a compressed path leads through the hedge, now turning a golden brown in the Autumn light (photo 3) It leads the way towards Orchard house, a newly built spa and health club, opened in April 2017, and REVIEWED FOR YOU in April 2022, it’s our part 3 of Mallory court. At its rear is the delightful Terrace (photo 4) which is a sun trap, a lovely place to relax and unwind, as our REVIEW part 3 shows, with photos of the health club for you to see. The spa overlooks a lawn and fountain (photo 5) with a pathway taking you to the tennis courts. This is a double court (photo 6) surrounded by a well kept tennis lawn. Walking over to the left, you enter the paddock, the land falling gently away from Orchard house, this paddock being part of the land then owned by Captain Black who owned the property in 1936, and this is a field of fruit trees heavily laden with apples of various specimens (photo 7) used by Mallory court in many of its freshly made menus. Looking across the paddock are lovely views of the open countryside of Warwickshire. A short walk across grassland and beyond the little building, it leads you to the rockery (photo 8) and you see the stream created to meander through the outcrop of selected local stone, with a small wooden bridge that helps you cross this outcrop of shrubs and specimen conifers that have been planted into the extensive rock garden, which was laid out in 1947 to a design by Sidney Lillim. If you go over to the right, you can have a pleasant view over the retaining wall towards Mallory court and it’s terrace areas (photo 9). The formal garden has two levels of terrace, the lower, designed in a cross pattern of stone flagged walkways, with four separate lawn areas, which leads your eye up to the main house. To see the formal garden itself, follow the red brick wall to the right, and turn left, go up to the stone steps (photo 10) and these flagged and nowadays, uneven steps will lead you into the formal garden. The central part of the garden has a square stone edged fountain pool, clearly seen when looking down on it from the upper terrace (photo 11) with views onward to open countryside, a pleasant garden to explore, which is overlooked by many trees and shrubs, delightful in the Autumn time (photo 12) and if you follow steps and paths round you can reach the upper terrace alongside the main house (photo 13) and enjoy a relaxing view over the formal garden as you sit at the many tables and chairs on the terrace, but it does involve a lot of steps, so not really suitable if you have limited mobility. From here, you may go around the main house via the rose garden (photo 14) and following the paths you can go back towards the carriage courtyard, and by the main car park. Instead of going into the main house, go directly across the main driveway towards Knights suite (photo 15) where accommodation is offered at far less costs than the main house, and follow the main path around to the right to reach the side of this Knights suite, and turning left go down the side of the building to reach an entry on your right, and go through the brick built archway which stands on its right hand side. This archway (photo 16) takes you to the kitchen gardens, and along its path it is lined with herbaceous plants alongside the flagged stone pathway. It’s a short pleasant walk, but take the path that leads off to its left to enter the kitchen gardens themselves (photo 17) an area cleverly laid out as a late ornamental potager with rectangular vegetable beds separated with narrow grass and gravel paths and very well maintained low shrub hedging, in itself a very nice garden area (photo 18) which looks back at Mallory court and many of its very beautiful bedrooms. A REVIEW OF THESE ROOMS FOLLOW in our next part of Mallory Court. You can walk along any of these grass laid narrow paths and the cropped beds which hold a collection of many colourful plants (photo 17) and various vegetables, grown so that they can be used by kitchen staff. At the far end, an area of other ornamental plants and vegetables can be seen (photo 20). Simply follow the paths ahead, and you can return to the main house and it’s entrance back into the main house itself. If you enjoy looking over gardens, then this short introduction may encourage you to go and see Mallory Court country house for yourself, you will not be disappointed by the gardens and the beautiful house itself. We certainly recommend you visiting, but if you are a disabled person, bear these thoughts in mind. Mallory court is not really wheelchair friendly, there are far to many steps you have to contend with, but it is an old building with old gardens, built long before disabled support was being offered, so unless you have a certain amount of mobility, and you feel you could cope with a few steps, then sadly, you will be limited by what Mallory Court has to offer, and that’s such a shame, as it is indeed a beautiful house and gardens. For many more day out ideas, check the website, www.help for disabled traveller. This site supports Euans guide.

Transport & Parking

The parking is not that good, it’s quite a way from the main entrance, and although a chair can easily cope, if it’s raining on your visit, then it could mean a difficult ride for you, unless your carer can drop you off at the house, and then take the car to the parking area.

Access

There are many steps to contend with, although most of the main house is on the level, but you may have to miss one or two areas, and on this review of the gardens, then there are too many steps you need to handle, so for the disabled person themselves, you would miss much of the delightful places to be seen.

Toilets

Public toilets are on the level in the main house, small but delightful, and no actual disabled toilet is available.

Staff

All the staff here are very pleasant, willing, and supportive.

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