Flint Cottage, South Downs

A Grade II-listed flint cottage, in the South Downs National Park.

The newly-developed site features a large kitchen garden with steel-edged raised beds.

A new gravel driveway is edged with a long sweep of wildflowers. No other new hard materials were used, to avoid detracting from the original flint buildings and garden walls.

A pond was added and is supporting local wildlife. Marginal plants soon made the pond look as though it had always been there.

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The view from the house is of the planted areas, with parking tucked neatly behind an outbuilding.