Rousham House - Oxfordshire

Please note no dogs or children under 15 allowed in house or gardens.

The house and its landscape garden should be a place of pilgrimage for students of the work of William Kent (1685-1748).
One of the finest Jacobean mansions in England was built in 1635 by Sir Robert Dormer, and is still in the ownership of the same family.
Rousham represents the first phase of English landscape design and remains almost as Kent left it, one of the few garden of this date to have escaped alteration.
The south front is almost as Kent left it, while the architect St Aubyn added the north side of the house in 1876.
Kent made alterations to the interior, which retains some 17th century panelling and the original staircases, furniture, pictures and bronzes.

There are many delightful features with walled garden and herbaceous borders. A fine herd of rare Long Horn cattle can be seen in the park.
Rousham is uncommercial and unspoilt with no tearoom and no shop. Bring a picnic, wear comfortable shoes and its yours for the day.