Walls and Revettments to Upper Terrace Garden at Parc

Large raised and walled terrace built out onto the steep slope in front of the former primary house and measuring some 16m across and 6m wide. The terrace has dry boulder-built revettment walls of cyclopean nature, slightly battered towards the front (downhill side). At their highest these walls are approximately 5m, though they rise to a height of only 1.5m (externally) at the top. At the lowest (downhill) point on the NE corner can be seen a primary (lantern ?) recess. From within the walled terrace the walls range from 3m at the back to approximately 1.5m at the front, the rear wall acting as a partial revettment for the platform upon which the primary house was formerly sited. From this a flight of slatestone steps descends into the terraced garden at the SW corner, whilst evidence for a second, central flight can also be seen, though this is obscured by later infill; the ground level of the terrace is currently about a metre higher than originally, so that the presence of further, archaeological evidence is implied. At the SW and NE (front) corners the rubble parapet steps up; the former has a splayed embrasure towards the front, with a small rectangular recess or niche to the return wall at L. The latter has a similar frontal embrasure and a small rectangular enclosure off to the R. Adjoining to the rear of this is the square base of what was presumably a species of tower, the rubble walls of which survive to a height of 1 to 2 m; in the SE corner the remains of a stone newel stair can be seen.