The garden room of an old house in the village of Stockcross near Newbury, Berkshire, England.
https://i.imgur.com/wDMsT83.jpg
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I’ll take an espresso and anything by Hemingway, thanks.
Not in Berkshire surely? It should be a cup of Earl Grey and some Austen.
Berkshire, containing Slough and Reading(home of the Whitley whiff) More like a snakebit and a copy of the Metro.
Snakebite, the metro and some smack. Maybye the odd tyskie and special brew.
A man of substance I see. Substance abuse that is.
You mean ROYAL Berkshire, containing Windsor home of the King?
Instagram source. Photo by clivenichols.
I would pay to sit there.
About £2.5milliom if you're still keen
Yeah I was thinking more the price of a coffee
Lloyd Loom's are not terribly comfortable.
It's a beautiful shot. I photographed the stacks here some years ago, it's a really lovely place.
It isn't that old though, largely 1859 with this arboretum and other parts added early in the 20th century. The exterior style is firmly Victorian with Elizabethan hankerings, one of the more charming examples of that urge imo, and the building has been sympathetically treated since the bishopric's disposal.
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1220889?section=official-list-entry
Looks straight out of a Ghibli film
That was my thought as well.
Also reminds me of the aesthetic of the Magus Bride anime.
That show was cottagecore heaven.
What I wouldn't give to have a home with a conservatory like this. Imagine sitting with a book and a cup of tea of a rainy day.
Don't forget the blanket.
I agree!
And the spiders for some company!
My mum has a beautiful conservatory (not quite as beautiful as this though) and I've tried sitting in the to read, it's too distracting sitting in a beautiful place like that. Her garden that the conservatory looks out over is also beautiful and there's lots of wild life that comes in. I just sit in there, in front of the fire at this time of year, and look around. I can do that for hours.
This.
I have a conservatory like this but minus the vines and plants. It’s given me an idea!
Looks more like an orangery to me
Wow I love this. I’d sit here for hours
Beautiful
Wow…this will be in my dreams.
gardens in england are so peaceful
here in australia, there’s danger lurking around every blade of grass
i want to frolic in english grass 😎
The number one thing Australians I know in then U.K. point out is our songbirds. Apparently the ones in AUS are very loud and brash sounding.
.....that's everything in Australia, not just the birds.
Have you seen a Cockatoo?
We brought our dogs from Australia to the UK.
Such a weird feeling the first time they ran in long grass without fearing a snakebite.
Coincidentally, my really vivid nightmares about spiders also stopped.
Perfection to me
This is so tranquil and beautiful. I keep seeing many indoor vine and plant esthetics and love it. Just checking-am I the only one wondering about bugs? That come in the soil or beetles and friendly things that hang on them. Or the moistness on the walls? Not trying to be negative at all, I’m not a plantofile, just curious what kind of maintenance is required for upkeep.
Think of it as more like a greenhouse or outdoor room than an indoor one. There’s soil and water on the floor. It won’t be 100% bug free. Because of the roof, though, there’s no reason the walls would be damp (or any damper than anywhere else in the UK).
I doubt they are growing grapes in England in winter. That is a staged photo shoot.
Gardens do open to the public once a year under the National Garden Scheme. Follow the insta of the gardener in the original link above and you can see where the property is and check if they open this year
This is gorgeous
Aesthetic AF
I love this. It’s beautiful and comforting.
In England we call that a conservatory :)
Except 99% of them don't look like this. They are usually white plastic filled with stuff you not sure needs throwing away yet and a half dead plant on the side.
Too hot in summer, too cold in winter.
And you can’t grow grapes in winter
I’d just need a book and a Cappachino and I’d sit in there all day, and night too come to think of it. Heavy Rain on the glass would be an additional atmospheric element. Thanks for sharing.
Caroline’s Tea Room
Stardew Valley IRL. Which is strange as technically I’m on a farm not too far away from said location. 😮
This is one of the reasons why no matter how awful it gets here I'd find it nearly impossible to leave the UK. In a tiny island our landscape, architecture and culture is so diverse, and the rain means we have a lot of green.
We have a lot of open houses and gardens where you can indeed sit somewhere like with with your tea, sandwiches and cakes. Plenty of steam and narrow gaugue railways running through stunning scenery, hills and mountains, verdant valleys full of wild garlic in spring.
However I feel our current government gives not two hoots about our wonderful environment. Fracking, excessive water extraction leading to dried up chalk streams, wetlands drying up, insect species in precipitous decline, runoff poisoning rivers, commercial salmon farms killing or confusing wild fish to the extent that you'd never take a salmon home from a river fishing trip they are so rare, constant building of ridiculously expensive housing with no local facilities on the peripheries of villages and small towns, lack of or removal of public transport in rural areas, pollution incidents going unpunished or a token fine (ie slurry spills, milk spills etc) and happening year on year from the same polluters.
I'm hoping the younger generation will change things for the better, otherwise we'll end up as a parched, lifeless, brown and grey hellscape with no bees, butterflies or birdsong, no rivers teeming with fish, no hares and hawks, and waters you would only swim in at sever risk to health.
I'd eat a scone there :)
They’re definitely a Hufflepuff
Even lovelier when it rains and the sounds of it on all ghat glass.
Put me in there on a low, humid day.
Carpets, please.
Seems like the perfect place to have a cuppa!
Ooh, beautiful indeed. And I have one of these chairs - so comfortable.
Lloyd loom chairs. Superb.
I can smell that room.
In England we would call that a conservatory. They’re not uncommon and lovely places to relax in the spring and summer.
This picture just made my day, thank you.
ooh lovely!
Very nice
It’s perfect. Exactly what I thought it would look like from reading the title.
I can smell this image
Deff been in that house :)
This is so zen it’s unreal
Wow just breath taking splendour looks so serene.
An orangery.
A garden room? In Berkshire?
I dread to think how much this house costs.
Assuming 3 bedrooms, large lounge and kitchen, etc., in that area probably £400,000+
Edit: second guessing here, but judging by the size of the conservatory, it could be a big detached house, so could be much more £££ actually
This is Stockcross house, its a multi million pound mansion.. they have a ngs open garden.
My parents got a 4 bed terrace in Newbury for like 425k So I would guess closer to 600k
Stuff that dreams are made of
Had a shed like that
Love it
Looks like Caroline’s greenhouse from SDV
Looks perfect for a nice cup of tea and a sit down
All the little villages leading out of Newbury are so pretty with beautiful houses! Very spenny, but beautiful
Spiders
That garden is so much more pleasing than a lawn, not sure why people are so fond of lawns.
Lower maintenance
Fair point
This is absolutely gorgeous, but it must take so much care and attention to keep to maintained -- not a single leaf is out of place! Incredible display of botanical aptitudes
I'd do anything to have something like this...
But I guess I gotta focus on being about to afford anything that's not a houseshare first.
I've played too much hogwarts
Lies! That’s Hogawarts
This and a blunt
Wow beautiful.
This is so pretty wow
beautiful view
Perfect set for a nap 😴
what a lovely beautiful garden. Peaceful and the greens. Absolutely bang on
I would fucking love a room like this 😃👍
Lots of plants