Terraces Balustrades And Steps To South And East Of Bowood House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. Terrace, landscape feature. 1 related planning application.
Terraces Balustrades And Steps To South And East Of Bowood House
- WRENN ID
- tilted-wattle-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1986
- Type
- Terrace, landscape feature
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST 96 NE CALNE WITHOUT BOWOOD
5/13 Terraces, balustrades and steps to south and east of Bowood House
GV II
Terraces, balustrades and steps, 1817-18 by Sir R. Smirke, 1851-3 by G. Kennedy, c1865 and with some remodelling after 1955 on site of demolished main house. Ashlar. South front Upper Terrace by Smirke has Jacobean style pierced roundels to balustrades, piers with stone vases and centre steps flanked by eroded pair of reliefs by W. Theed c1860 and two bronze stags marked M. Geiss, Berlin. Retaining wall and similar balustrade extend along west end of Lower Terrace, by Kennedy, to an ornate ashlar Italianate pavilion. Lower Terrace has horseshoe steps up at west end flanking lion-mask fountain, the top parapet now carrying stone nude by D. Wynne 1978. East end has rounded stone seat. Dwarf walls in gardens have 4 stone lions formerly on gatepiers to main house. Long south balustrade with turned balusters and central steps down. Terrace east of the house, c1865, has similar Jacobean style balustrading on retaining wall and also along east side of lower garden. (Country Life, 22.6.1972)
Listing NGR: ST9748869911
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