Garden · Northiam · East Sussex

Great Dixter

Great Dixter is a grade I listed historic house museum. Within the built-up area of Northiam, it is one of the places to visit. Look also at Bodiam Castle, 3.4 km away, first of 30 more within 15 km.

Photo: Great Dixter, Miles Berry (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Where

In Northiam

inside the built-up area

How well known

Top 19%

#1,601 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 18–23°C

In brief

Garden in Northiam

Inside Northiam

Great Dixter is inside Northiam’s built-up area, with 3 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Grade I listed building

On the official list of protected heritage; Northiam has 82 listed buildings in all, on its History page. About ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

The weather, month by month

Highs of 18–23°C mark May to September in Northiam.

Jan8° / 2°95 mm

Feb8° / 2°65 mm

Mar11° / 3°51 mm

Apr14° / 5°51 mm

May18° / 8°52 mm

Jun20° / 11°51 mm

Jul22° / 13°49 mm

Aug23° / 13°65 mm

Sep20° / 10°64 mm

Oct16° / 8°101 mm

Nov12° / 5°107 mm

Dec9° / 3°104 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Northiam, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Northiam. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Northiam’s full climate →

About

Great Dixter

5 Wikipedia editions have an article on it.

Northiam’s listed buildings and monuments →

Type: Garden
Listed: Grade I listed building
Wikipedias: Covered in 5 languages
Town: in Northiam
Official site: greatdixter.co.uk

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Great Dixter at a glance

Find Great Dixter in orange; each number is a place listed below.

Towns near it

The nearest towns to Great Dixter

The biggest base of the 8 is Northiam (1,910 people). Pick a base: each town is a page of its own, with what else there is to see.

1 · It’s in town

Northiam

1,910 people · 5 places to visit

2 · 2.5 km southeast of it

Beckley

734 people · 3 places to visit

3 · 2.7 km north of it

Linkhill

367 people · 7 places to visit

4 · 3.3 km northwest of it

Sandhurst

670 people · 6 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Great Dixter is	People	Places to visit
Northiam	It’s in town	1,910	5
Beckley	2.5 km southeast of it	734	3
Linkhill	2.7 km north of it	367	7
Sandhurst	3.3 km northwest of it	670	6
Bodiam	3.5 km west of it	395	4
Staplecross	3.7 km southwest of it	825	4
Broad Oak (Rother)	4.3 km south of it	869	2
Rolvenden Layne	5.9 km northeast of it	378	10

Make a day of it

More near Great Dixter

Choose from 30 places within 15 km, such as 3 castles, 3 historic houses and an abbey or priory.

Castle · National TrustBodiam Castle3.4 km away 2

Abbey or priory · English HeritageBattle Abbey12 km away 3

Garden · National TrustSissinghurst Castle and Garden13 km away 4

Castle · English HeritageCamber Castle12 km away 5

Historic houseBrickwall1.5 km away 6

Historic house · National TrustLamb House11 km away 7

Historic house · National TrustBateman's15 km away 8

CastleRye Castle11 km away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Your questions on Great Dixter

Where is Great Dixter?

Great Dixter is in Northiam, East Sussex, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Great Dixter?

Grade I listed historic house museum in Sussex, England, UK.

When is the best time to visit Great Dixter?

May to September are the warmest months in Northiam, with afternoon highs of 18–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

Is Great Dixter a listed building?

Yes: Grade I listed building.

What else is there to see near Great Dixter?

Within 15 km: Bodiam Castle (3.4 km), Battle Abbey (12 km), Sissinghurst Castle and Garden (13 km) and Camber Castle (12 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (9)

Great Dixter: Miles Berry, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Bodiam Castle: Antony McCallum, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Battle Abbey: Antony McCallum, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Sissinghurst Castle and Garden: Hans Bernhard (Schnobby), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Camber Castle: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Brickwall: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Lamb House: Elizabeth B. Thomsen, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Bateman's: Tilman2007, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Rye Castle: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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