The gardens at Dalemain, Penrith, Cumbria
The home of Mr and Mrs Robert Hasell-McCosh
THERE cannot be many gardens in England where you have a fair chance of seeing red squirrels or a dark-green sleeping dragon—even, perhaps, a wild goose resting in the treetops, for geese, like gulls, have webbed feet unsuited to tree life. But Dalemain is full of charming surprises, many of them being the inspiration of its present chatelaine, Jane Hasell-McCosh, who sensitively weaves her own innovations into the spellbinding grandeur of the location and its 1,000-year-long recorded history.
Set in a broad valley in the northern reaches of the Lake District, Dalemain’s woodlands and gently undulating sheep-grazed pastures are shaped by the meanders of the rivers Eamont and Dacre Beck. The house presents an impressive Georgian
