The garden of Pusey House, Oxfordshire
The home of Mr and Mrs Richard Perlhagen
WHEN Pusey House came to the market in 2010, the selling agent called it ‘one of England’s most beautiful houses’. Even allowing for the well-known enthusiasm of estate agents, if you stand on the broad terrace admiring the house’s sublimely elegant mid-18th-century stone façade, then turn to the view south across tree-framed lawns and lake to the far ridge of the Berkshire Downs, it is hard not to agree. It would seem that the elegance of the house has always been the inspiration for its setting; from the original 18th-century landscape to the garden that was substantially created by Michael and Nicolette Hornby after they purchased Pusey in 1935, as well as the garden that has been
