North Terrace With Sunken Garden And Pavilion

The North Terrace with Sunken Garden and Pavilion is a terrace featuring a sunken garden and pavilions, designed around 1900 by R. Selden Wornum. It includes a balustraded terrace with candelabra balusters that support a stone rail, which is complemented by lozenge-panelled piers topped with squat moulded obelisks. The walls leading down to the garden are made of red brick, while the piers are constructed from stone. The terrace is arranged in a U-shape, with staircases leading down into the garden set into the walls on either side and projecting into the garden at the center. The outer wings of the terrace extend as lower walls that end in garden pavilions designed in the Elizabethan classical style. These pavilions feature round arched open sides that are closed at the rear, with the arches framed by flanking Ionic columns that support moulded stone cornices adorned with lunette decoration above. The roofs of the pavilions are square-plan ogee domes covered in fish-scale tiles, with saucer domes on the inside and decorative finials on top.