Tea House Steps at Stan Hywet

by Julie @ Wife, Mother, Gardener

Just passed the Birch Allee at Stan Hywet, you come to the Tea Houses. If you venture to look over the railing between them, you will see the most thrilling stone steps down the side of the hill. This was one of the original quarries, and so these steps were part of the Quarry wall.

tea house steps at stan hywet, architecture, gardening, stairs, Quarry steps at Stan HywetQuarry steps at Stan Hywet a beautiful balance between century old stone work and nature

Quarry steps at Stan HywetQuarry steps at Stan Hywet... a beautiful balance between century old stone work and nature.

Looking up to the tea house.

tea house steps at stan hywet, architecture, gardening, stairs, Down down down the other side to the Shakespearean stage for the theater hosted at Stan Hywet every summer

Down, down, down the other side... to the Shakespearean stage, for the theater hosted at Stan Hywet every summer.

tea house steps at stan hywet, architecture, gardening, stairs, These are the more proper steps that you can descend to this area just to the right of the tea houses

These are the more proper steps that you can descend to this area, just to the right of the tea houses.

A stone grotto gives respite just below the tea houses.

tea house steps at stan hywet, architecture, gardening, stairs, Stone steps and the top of a tea house at Stan Hywet Ferns Helleborus Pulmonaria and ivy cover this hillside

Stone steps and the top of a tea house at Stan Hywet. Ferns, Helleborus, Pulmonaria and ivy cover this hillside.

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Douglas Hunt on Aug 30, 2013
Those steps do a great balancing act between the precarious and the beautiful.

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Carol L on Oct 13, 2013
Absolutely beautiful! What I would give to have something like this!

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