Terrace Wall With 14 Urns To Terrace East And South East Of Oldway Mansion

PAIGNTON

SX8861 TORQUAY ROAD 1947-1/4/103 (West side) Terrace wall with 14 urns to terrace east and south-east of Oldway Mansion

GV II

Terrace walls, incorporating flight of steps, surmounted by urns. c1904-1907, probably contemporary with the remodelling of Oldway Mansion for Paris Singer. Grounds laid out by A Duchesne, a leading French formal landscape architect. Urns stamped Val d'Osne, 58 Boulevarde Voltaire, Paris. Walls local red breccia rubble, partly faced in concrete and surmounted by concrete coping; stone steps; cast-iron urns. The walls retain a long terrace running along the east front of the house and extending south. Plain, coped concrete walls surmounted by set of 13 identical urns, decorated with satyrs' head handles with a plain central band separating formal foliage decoration; plainer urn at south end. Part of the setting of Oldway Mansion (qv) which has a number of garden items contemporary with the early C20 recasting of the house. (Torbay Borough Council: Oldway Mansion, Paignton; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 839-840).

Listing NGR: SX8882461473