Pavilion, Sunken Terrace, Manderston House is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 February 1996. Terraces, pavilion, dovecot.
Pavilion, Sunken Terrace, Manderston House
- WRENN ID
- young-threshold-nettle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1996
- Type
- Terraces, pavilion, dovecot
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
John Kinross, circa 1895. Pair of sunken terraces to E of house, comprising croquet lawn to W with raised viewing area, stone steps and outbuildings, and tennis court to E. Ashlar sandstone steps in L-plan cascade articulated by ball-finialled dies. Further set with balustrade and ball-finialled dies
TUDOR PAVILION: variegated rubble garden shed with ashlar dressings built into wall with Elizabethan details; windows with moulded surrounds and leaded diamond-pane glazing. Segmental-arcehd doorway with blank panel above flanked by bipartite window to right and to left by low ogee-arched opening. Tripartite window on return to left.
GARDEN HOUSE/DOVECOT: small, square, rake-jointed rubble sandstone building with ashlar dressings set into low, flat-coped wall. Decorative, lead diamond-pane glazing pattern to small bipartite window with moulded surround; cavetto cornice, ashlar, sawtooth, pyramidal roof broken by flight-hole row (3 openings), and alighting ledge above, ball finial at apex. Door on return to right with chamfered arrises, entered through small enclosed area with 2 ball finial flanked dies. Short run of ashlar balustrade flanking to left with central die.
High rubble walls with battered, sawtooth coping.
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