Buscot Park: East Pavilion With Attached Terrace Walls And Gatepier

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BUSCOT Buscot Park, east pavilion with attached terrace walls and gatepier.

(Formerly listed as Buscot Park, east pavilion with attached tonne 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 side breaks forward in the wider middle bay which contains an open archway below a triangular pediment. Roof has a central cupola. Barrel-vaulted passage is decorated with frescoes of a Socialist theme by Lord Hastings. Stone retaining walls punctuated by low piers with vases and by flights of steps extend along the east side of the north terrace, and to south ramp up to a raised balustrade adjoining the panelled northern pier of the south-east gateway to the forecourt. The walls form part of an elaborate formal landscape scheme surrounding the mansion. (q.v. also west pavilion and south screen.) (Country Life, 18, 25 May 1940; National Trust Guidebook to Buscot Park).

Listing NGR: SU2434696809