- C19
The house was built as a Rectory in the 1820’s and used as such until the middle of the 1930’s. It is a stuccoed Regency building but the back part, which forms a small courtyard, is probably older. The stables have a date suggesting they were built in the seventeenth century. The walled garden has been restored to the original layout. To the south lies a delightful semi-circular ’secret garden’ and on the hillside below is a magnificent rock garden. The River Heddon emerges onto a small rocky gorge at the eastern edge of the property and then falls over a small cascade through rock bounded banks to a bog garden. The river flows along the southern boundary of the property through a series of three lakes at different levels and separated by dams. There is a pathway along the southern bank through a thicket of rhododendrons, probably planted in Victorian times. There is a fine avenue of horse chestnut trees which formed the border to the original driveway.
Heddon Hall is listed Grade II
Garden Survey by Alison Newton 1993
