Riverhill House

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Riverhill House is a Grade II listed Queen Anne manor in Sevenoaks, Kent, England. The 130-acre estate lies just south of Knole Park, near Sevenoaks Weald and Underriver. The gardens are open to visitors from March to September. The house was built on the site of a Tudor farmstead in 1714 and was bought in 1840 by John Rogers, a botanist and early Royal Horticultural Society member who chose the site for its sheltered location and lime-free soil. The Rogers family expanded the house up to 1900, and today it remains a private family home. The gardens, established from 1842, feature notable trees such as a Turkey oak grown from a Russian acorn collected by an ancestor who served in the Crimean War, and cedar trees planted in the 1840s. In March 2010, Channel 4 aired Country House Rescue about Riverhill, featuring owner Jane Margaret Rogers and maze designer Adrian Fisher. Riverhill Himalayan Gardens now hosts a range of events, including weddings, on the estate.