Garden Structures Including Terraces, Balustrades, Urns And Statues To Front Garden To Castle Hill House

FILLEIGH CASTLE HILL SS 62 NE 5/32 Garden structures including - terraces, balustrades, urns and 20.2.67 statues to front garden to Castle Hill House II GV Garden structures including terraces, balustrades, urns and statues. Principally C18, conforming largely to part of Matthew, 2nd Lord Fortescue's landscape design, with some C19 and C20 alterations. Principal terrace stretching entire length of facade and projecting forward in conformity with the central range. Balustrade, mainly recast in concrete with urns to principal uprights and 2 lions couchant cast in lead on ashlar plinths to centre. Free-standing urn to centre of terrace with sculptured drum depicting classical scene and inscription on plinth "This vase was given by Peter Lord King to Hugh Earl Fortescue MDCCCXXXI". Symmetrical disposition of statuary furniture to grass terrace in front sloping down to raised parapetted terrace. 2 pairs of female Egyptian sphinxes to centre, the upper pair flanked by figure statues, the lower pair by 3 large stone urns on each side angled outwards towards the terminating walls of the walkway which are also flanked by similar urns. The front retaining parapet wall, of stone rubble and brick above, rendered with sunken panels, breaks forward at each end and to the centre, with urns at the angles of each break, all cast in lead except to the front of the central break, which are of stone. Baluster sundial to central break.

Listing NGR: SS6704728345