Loggia in the grounds of Thames Eyot

MATERIALS: Portland stone, brick and cement, faced in dressed ashlar, stone flag roof slabs, on iron brackets, stone flag floors, slate soffit to roof.

PLAN AND ELEVATIONS: the loggia is built against the southern boundary wall and faces north-east. Approximately 18.5 m in length and 2.4 m deep, it comprises a ten-bay Tuscan colonnade built in stone and terminating in a square pier at the river end of the loggia and in paired piers adjacent to the grotto. The frieze is of alternating triglyphs and paterae beneath a deep projecting cornice with flat mutules or brackets. The rear wall is faced in stone and lined with truncated short pilasters. The roof, which is a single pitch, is clad in large stone flags supported on pierced iron brackets which also support slate linings. The floor and forecourt which extends beyond the loggia are paved in stone flags, extended in reconstituted stone paving.