This scheme designed and built by Grant Horticulture is a celebration of architecture, gardening and craftmanship from the Arts and Crafts movement. True to the principles of Arts and Crafts architecture, designer Callum Bain-Mackay's scheme uses natural local materials to create detail within his scheme. Along with beautiful planting, the garden's main focus is a series of 4 columnal clay sculptures which watch over the planting areas like guards of the movement. Callum constructed these using ultra-thin Ketley Linium bricks carefully stacked in 4 individual sculptural forms.
They are reminiscent of the grand decorative chimneys which adorned Arts and Crafts properties and each one is a different and unique design.
A custom made, handcrafted pavilion provides shelter, with 2 handmade oak chairs. Ketley Tenger pavers in brown brindle were laid outside the pavilion in a basket weave pattern, mirroring some of the detail within the sculptures. These clay pavers can be laid either as a 200 x 50 x 65mm or 200 x 65 x 50mm format. Here they were laid as 65mm wide by 50mm deep to allow for the basket weave laying pattern. In this format, the pavers reveal a face with some orange 'hearting' which picked out some of the orange planting. This is unique to Ketley's brown brindle colour and is a product of the way the product is placed in the kiln for firing. The narrower face 50mm wide x 65mm deep has the purply brown tones but not the orange hearting.
The same pavers were used to edge a Breedon gravel pathway which surrounded a central water feature.
