No. 45 Patios · English Cottage
Brick Dining Patio with Rose Pergola
Outside a stone cottage, a brick patio features a wooden dining table beneath a timber pergola climbed by pink roses, surrounded by an English cottage garden of tall foxgloves.
Design notes
English cottage design is abundance with a plan. Look for brick, flagstone or gravel paths that give the eye a route, borders packed with roses, foxgloves, lavender, catmint and delphiniums, and a little structure from clipped box, a picket fence or an arbour. Materials are aged — reclaimed brick, painted timber, weathered stone — and there is always somewhere to sit: a bench under a tree, a bistro table by the door.
What to look for
- The paving material and how its joints are handled
- Whether the furniture footprint fits with room to move
- Shade at 4 pm, not just at noon






