Restoration House

A unique and historic walled garden filled with wonderful formal and herbaceous features and an Italian Renaissance water garden. 

An assortment of flowers in front of a greenhouse at Restoration house an open garden for the British Red Cross.

13 July 2024

Rochester

Entrance fee:
£6 for adults 
Time:
12pm - 5pm
Garden owner:
Robert Tucker

For all enquiries, please get in touch with us by email: opengardens@redcross.org.uk

We hope this garden will re-open in the future. Please keep checking this page for more details.

Situated in the heart of Rochester, this unique historic walled garden is filled with spectacular formal and herbaceous features, including one of the best surviving box parterres. Discover outstanding yew topiary, a dedicated cutting garden, rich herbaceous borders, exotic greenhouses and potting sheds and the astonishing restoration of a large 17th-century Italian Renaissance water garden.

Privately owned and maintained, with outstanding brickwork, paths and statues, this is a garden of immense charm and ambition and still one of Kent’s best kept secrets.

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Event information

Address:

17 - 19 Crow Lane
Rochester
ME1 1RF

Directions:

Restoration House is well signposted from Rochester High Street. If driving, Blue Boar Lane car park is just a five-minute walk away and Crow Lane is your next road on the left, with Restoration House being located on your left as you head along Crow Lane. If travelling by train, Rochester station is just a seven-minute walk away. 

Facilities:

  • Refreshments