Ever Garden - Cottage and Sculpture Garden

About

Ever Garden is a sculpture garden and 18th century cottage newly open to visitors this year. Sculpture and art installations, responding to the cottage’s history and surroundings, both outside and in.

The outdoor sculpture features a mix of permanent and temporary artworks, some featuring movement and others integrated with the planting. The open, sunny garden, with all-weather pathways, is divided into mini zones freshly landscaped with a mix of traditional cottage garden perennials and more unusual drought tolerant plants.

The cottage itself is a grade II listed chalk stone construction with a clay peg tile roof rolling over its dormer eyebrow windows. Its layout, fixtures and fittings inside are all still intact. The cottage was owned by the same family for last 100 years, with select items of original furniture still in place. A converted annexe is now also a gallery/shop.

Tucked out of sight in the centre of Brighstone village on the South West of the island, five minutes drive from the beaches of Compton and Brook. The village has a number of other listed cottages at its centre and includes a thatched newsagent and cafe, a village store, tea-room, a pub with dining and a village museum in a row of thatched National Trust cottage.