Miscellaneous Sites in West Sussex, England: the street side of a house designed by architect Charles Sydney Spooner in Bury, West Sussex, and its lovely cottage garden.

Object Details

General: The same property appears in ENG044044, ENG044045, and ENG044046. Located on The Street, the house was destroyed by fire. Bury House, subsequently built on the site, was the home of writer John Galsworthy for the last seven years of his life.

Photographer: Sears, Thomas Warren, 1880-1966
Architect: Spooner, Charles Sydney, 1862-1938
Collection Creator: Sears, Thomas Warren, 1880-1966; Sears & Wendell; Olmsted Brothers; Harvard University; American Society of Landscape Architects

Place: England -- West Sussex -- Bury; United Kingdom -- England -- West Sussex -- Bury

Topic: Walkways, brick; Perennials; Garden borders; Houses; Thatched roofs; Gardens -- England -- West Sussex -- Bury; Cottage gardens

See more items in: Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection; Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection / Series 1: Photographic Images / International / England / ENG044: West Sussex (including Fittleworth) -- Miscellaneous Sites in West Sussex

Collection Citation: Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Thomas Warren Sears photograph collection.

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Bibliography: The house and garden have been featured in John Hudson Elder-Duncan, Country Cottages and Week-end Homes (London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1906), pp. 187 and 199-201.

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