Garden Structures Including Terraces, Summer House, Tool House, Gates And Gatepiers, Sundial And Statuary Furniture To Front Garden To Tapeley Park House

WESTLEIGH TAPELEY PARK SS 42 NE 3/117 Garden structures including terraces, summer house, tool house, gates and gatepiers, sundial and statuary furniture to front garden to Tapeley Park House GV II Garden structures including terraces, summer house, tool house, gates and gatepiers, sundial and statuary furniture. Early C20, forming part of John Belcher's scheme for re-design of house and garden. 3 terraces. Stone rubble with brick coping and projecting buttresses at intervals with moulded stone coping and at the centre of each terrace a flight of brick steps with stone flank walls with moulded coping. Summer house on west side including steps and piers. Summer house, stone rubble with scantle slate ogee hipped roof with ball finial and projecting timber modillion eaves. Small rectangular building with tripartite open front and central arch supported on columns with moulded capitals. In front, flight of steps with flanking walls surmounted by oriental mythical beasts. Tall monolithic granite columns in front with dragons entwined around the columns. Gatepiers and gates to south side. Gatepiers of stone rubble. Square section, surmounted by ball finials. Wrought iron gates with ornate cresting with leaves and scrolls. Sundial to centre of lower terrace by J Bird of London. Spiral fluted baluster with Corinthian capital, bronze sundial on top. Tool shed on upper terrace, east side, of brick and stone rubble and patterned slate roof. Dutch gable with niches containing busts. Stone arched gateways to north and east sides.

Listing NGR: SS4779028989