Shute House, Donhead St Mary, Wiltshire, England is a former rectory, now a private home, notable for its gardens designed by Geoffrey Jellicoe.

Lady Anne, a sister of the 11th Duke of Devonshire, was a noted prison reformer and her husband, Michael, was the son of Nancy Lancaster, the interior designer.

[5][6] They had earlier lived at Mereworth Castle in Kent, and had a connection to Geoffrey Jellicoe though work he had undertaken for Nancy and Ronald Tree at Ditchley Park in the 1930s.

[9][10] Ode to Charles Bridgeman,Your Serpentine is Grand and Fine,Forgive me when I claim that mine,Made at Shute in seventy-nine,is much more Elegant than thine.

[13] In the 1990s, the house was bought by Sir John and Lady Suzy Lewis, who persuaded Jellicoe to come out of retirement to undertake a restoration of the gardens which had deteriorated.

One is naturalistic, the other a straight, formal rill in which the water flows over a series of copper ledges, designed to create musical notes.