Buscot Park: Southern Screen With Attached Terrace Walls And Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1990. Screen.

Buscot Park: Southern Screen With Attached Terrace Walls And Gate Piers

WRENN ID
low-sill-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Country
England
Date first listed
23 November 1990
Type
Screen
Source
Historic England listing

Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/09/2012

SU29NW 1/106

BUSCOT Buscot Park, southern screen with attached terrace walls and gate piers

GV II

Screen, walls and piers. Circa 1935 by Geddes Hyslop for 2nd Baron Faringdon. Wrought iron and limestone ashlar. Wrought-iron screen, placed across main axis of mansion (q.v.), is in 3 sections separated by taller ornamented standards and is flanked by tall ashlar piers with ball finials. Stone balustrades return around the ends of the main terrace and link to the plain retaining walls of the lower terraces which extend to the panelled southern piers of the south-east and south-west entrances to the forecourt, where they ramp up to raised balustrades. Part of an elaborate formal landscape scheme surrounding the mansion. (q.v. also east and west pavilions and walls.)

Listing NGR: SU2424996726

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