The Old Rectory -open on certain dates.

A few years ago the Old Rectory, Farnborough was voted ‘the most beautiful Old Rectory in England’ by Country Life magazine.

Perched on a rise with memorable views out across the gently undulating Berkshire Downs, with only the parish church in sight across the lane, its setting alone is enviable.

The romance of the scene is added to by the knowledge that John Betjeman lived here and that the artist John Piper created a window in the church in his memory.

To all this, through more than half a century, Caroline Todhunter has added a garden that is quintessentially English in its understated style, its skilful planting and its balance of formal and natural.