Garden Feature At South End Of South Terrace Of Prideaux Place is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1988. Garden feature.
Garden Feature At South End Of South Terrace Of Prideaux Place
- WRENN ID
- brooding-pillar-heath
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1988
- Type
- Garden feature
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
PADSTOW PRIDEAUX PLACE, Padstow SW 9075-9175 8/135 Garden feature at south end of south terrace of Prideaux Place
GV II*
Garden seat at south end of terrace. 1740 (datestone). By Edmund Prideaux. Vermiculated and dressed stone ashlar with side walls of rendered brick. Central garden seat is like a portal flanked by low quadrant walls terminating in square-on-plan piers. Situated at the south end of a terrace. The garden seat is in the form of a portal with a vermiculated round arch, imposts, keyblocks and moulded cornice to its pedimented top. Flanked by low quadrant walls, each with 4 shallow niches, terminating in a pair of stone rubble rendered piers which have moulded bases and caps and are surmounted by vase capped urns. Within the 'portico' is an inscription recording that the marbles, which are inscriptions and portable shrines of first century AD. were brought back from Rome by Edmund Prideaux in 1740.
Listing NGR: SW9139075453
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