Ston Easton Park is a Grade I listed building of 1740, within a classical landscape created by the great 18th Century landscape gardener, Humphry Repton. Ston Easton Park was once the home of the Hippisley family, whose family crest still adorns the ornate ceiling of the Saloon. The house has been very sensitively restored since the 1960s, most notably by the distinguished former editor of The Times, William Rees-Mogg.
The gardens contain a host of interesting historic features including a number of wells, an 18th Century ice house, a ruined grotto fountain, a sham castle, romantic Palladian bridges that span the river and a rare 18th Century plunge pool the discovery of which helped save Ston Easton Park from demolition in the 1950s.
History of Ston Easton Park
