Thenford House, Arboretum & Gardens.
The Sculpture Garden: the one piece that gets most comments from visitors, unsurprisingly, is the socking great head of Lenin.
It was removed from a KGB building in Latvia soon after the collapse of the Soviet Empire. But what are several tons of Communist propaganda doing on a huge brick plinth in the garden of a Tory peer?
‘People forget that under Communism, the only Soviet patron was the state,’ says Lady Heseltine, ‘so all these artists had to channel their talent into pieces like this. When the Berlin Wall came down, I was worried that all these things would be destroyed so I was determined to rescue something.’
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