Terrace House

ST STEPHENS BY WERRINGTON PARK SX 38 NW LAUNCESTON 9/162 Terrace House II

Garden folly. Circa mid C18. Massive blocks of stone rubble to front with smaller blocks on rear. Partly brick lined in Flemish bond. Now roofless. Plan: Central chamber of overall rectangular plan with wide central entrance on front. Two smaller cells to right and left, set back from main range. The left hand cell has a blocked opening in the front, iron gates in the side and the remains of a fireplace in the rear right hand corner. The left hand cell has a side entrance. The folly is built into the steep bank which rises to rear. Exterior: Probably originally a single storey low building, only its walls surviving. Front range set forward with rusticated stone round headed arch with keyblock and circa C19 iron gates. Possible window opening to left and slanted slit opening in left hand side flanked with granite jambs and stanchion bar. The left hand cell which is set back has a blocked square headed opening with keyblock. The right hand cell, also set back, has a side opening. Interior: Largely gutted. Brick lined. In his Travels Through England Dr Richard Pococke recorded many of the follies found in Werrington Park in 1750. The terrace house was possibly referred to as the hermitage, similar recorded Pococke, to that in Richmond. He also recorded a ruinous castle, a temple to the sun, a triumphant arch, a model of the tomb of Horatti (qv The Sugar Loaves) and a large alcove seat close to the river, all follies probably built for Sir William Morice qv. Werrington Park (house). At time of inspection (1987) the Terrace House was considerably overgrown and some of the upper wall sections had fallen. Pococke, Dr Richard 'Travels Through England' 1750 published in Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, Vol 1X, 207-208.

Listing NGR: SX3305686421