The small walled area now known as The Millennium Garden was once a drab, messy area used for hanging out the washing and for storing heating oil. It is now paved with Purbeck stone and brick paths between beds of tree peonies, poppies, euphorbias and day lilies - all interspersed with verbascums and verbena.

Designed in 2000 by Rupert Golby, this wonderfully sheltered and warm garden is home to some quite tender plants such as Lapageria and Cestrum. A little population of the the very rare perennial Lobelia urens has been added and is nurtured with great care.

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Standard strawberry trees (Arbutus unedo) are clipped to mushroom shapes. An unusual magnolia (M. delavayi) is tucked into one corner and a massive Clematis armandii scrambles up the adjacent house wall.