Viewing Terrace at Kings Weston Estate

The Viewing Terrace at Kings Weston Estate is a walled garden terrace and promenade built around 1732, featuring a parapet wall from the late 18th century and some later repairs.

The terrace is an earthen structure laid on bedrock, supported by a local rubble stone retaining wall. This wall includes some red brick repairs and a few remaining black cast slag blocks used as coping. The terrace and wall extend approximately 120 meters from east to west, with the former top of the retaining wall visible along its length, beneath the random rubble late-18th century parapet wall. The height of the retaining wall decreases from east to west, with the western end previously ramped down.

At the eastern end, the parapet wall connects to the wall of a late 19th-century footbridge, which is also listed as Grade II. There are sections of collapsed or removed wall on either side of stone steps that lead up into the Kings Weston Estate. In the central area, there are large sections of wall that have been repaired with red brick, and further west, some of the black slag coping stones remain in place. The western end of the wall has partially collapsed and has been truncated and partly rebuilt to form a jamb that incorporates a slag block. The promenade on the north side of the wall is overgrown with vegetation, and there is an earthen footpath to the north.