Buscot Park: West Pavilion With Attached Terrace Walls And Gatepier

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BUSCOT Buscot Park, West pavilion with attached terrace walls and gatepier

(Formerly listed with Buscot Park)

GV II

Pavilion (part of country house). Circa 1935 by Geddes Hyslop for 2nd Baron Faringdon. Limestone ashlar. 7-bay range running parallel with main axis of mansion (q.v.) has both ends porticoed with 4 Tuscan Doric columns in antis and roundels in pediments. Longer sides have an additional basement storey, to east opening to a sunken service court; middle bay, which is wider and breaks forward below triangular pediment, has an arched carriage entry rising through both storeys. Ashlar ridge stacks flank central bay. Stone retaining walls, punctuated by low piers with vases and by flights of steps, extend around the west and north sides of the north terrace, curving around a stone basin and statue, and to south ramp up to a raised balustrade adjoining the panelled northern pier of the south-west gateway to the forecourt. The walls form part of an elaborate formal landscape scheme surrounding the mansion. (q.v. also east pavilion and south screen.) (Country Life, 18, 25 May 1940; National Trust Guidebook to Buscot Park).

Listing NGR: SU2426796849