Terrace Walls, and Rustic Seat at South End of South Garden at Oldway Mansion is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1993. Garden structure. 3 related planning applications.

Terrace Walls, and Rustic Seat at South End of South Garden at Oldway Mansion

WRENN ID
muffled-timber-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1993
Type
Garden structure
Address
Terrace Walls, and Rustic Seat at South End of South Garden at Oldway Mansion, Torquay Road, TQ3 2TD
OS grid reference
SX 887 614
Coordinates
50.44194, -3.56795
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The terrace walls, steps, and rustic seat are located at the south end of the garden south of Oldway Mansion. They were built between 1904 and 1907, during the remodeling of Oldway Mansion for Paris Singer. The grounds were designed by A Duchesne, a prominent French formal landscape architect. The retaining wall is faced with local grey limestone arranged in crazy courses, with a concrete parapet that is partly balustraded and a concrete seat. These walls separate the formal garden immediately south of the house from the more natural garden to the south. On the upper terrace, the wall includes a somewhat decayed rustic seat, and there is a flight of enclosed steps that leads down from the upper terrace into the wilder garden. This feature is part of the setting of Oldway Mansion and holds group value with other garden elements.

Local climate

Terrace Walls, and Rustic Seat at South End of South Garden at Oldway Mansion receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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