Eastcote House Gardens
Park · Eastcote, England
Eastcote House Gardens covers 3.63 hectares on High Road, Eastcote, HA5 2FE, and is owned by the London Borough of Hillingdon. It opens 9am to 4pm in January, February, November and December; 9am to 5pm in March and October; 9am to 6pm in April; 9am to 8pm from May to August; and 9am to 7pm in September, with The Gardens Café open 9am to 3pm every day. The Old Coach House, the dovecote and the garden walls are listed Grade II as NHLE 1080226, NHLE 1285861 and NHLE 1080227.
History
The estate began as "Hopkyttes" in 1507 and was renamed Eastcote House when Ralph Hawtrey married Winifred Walleston in 1525; the Hawtrey family held it until 1878. Ruislip-Northwood Urban District Council bought the 9.1-acre estate in 1931 to stop its development, the house was declared unsafe in 1962, and it was demolished two years later. The Old Coach House, the timber-framed Tudor stables, was listed Grade II on 6 September 1974 as list entry 1080226, with the dovecote built by John Hawtrey, who died in 1593, under NHLE 1285861 and the garden walls to its east under NHLE 1080227, all on the same day. The Heritage Lottery Fund awarded £1.3 million in 2013 towards the stables restoration; work finished in 2017 and the building reopened as The Gardens Café. The site has held a Green Flag Award since 2011, and the walled garden was renamed the Lesley Crowcroft Walled Garden in 2024. Eastcote Underground station, on the Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines, is 1,231 m away, and the 282 and H13 buses stop on Eastcote High Road 161 m from the gate.
Visit
Eastcote House Gardens, High Road, Eastcote HA5 2FE