Houses & gardens in EssexEssex, England

Grand Jacobean palace in Capability Brown parkland.

A white neo-classical mansion in parkland shaped by a Humphry Repton Red Book.

England's tallest Tudor gatehouse in brick.

The influential 'right plant, right place' gardens created from gravel and bog at Elmstead Market, with famous dry, woodland and water gardens.

Twenty acres of private gardens at Ardleigh near Colchester, mixing Japanese, gravel, water and woodland planting.

A half-timbered merchant's house of about 1500, famed for its carved timberwork.

A 360-acre RHS hilltop garden near Chelmsford, famous for its drought-tolerant Dry Garden, roses and sweeping herbaceous borders.

The largest privately owned walled garden in Essex, radiating from a central fountain.

Seven linked Victorian gardens with a Dutch parterre and a yew hedge maze.

A Georgian mansion gutted by fire in 1917 and slowly being restored.