Ruins of Piercefield House, Left Hand or West Pavilion

The pavilion is built of Bath limestone ashlar with internal brick walling, roof not present. Only the front (south) elevation is properly visible. The pavilion is in temple form with a tetrastyle front of Roman Doric half columns supporting a full entablature and pediment. The only opening is a large square headed one in the centre with a moulded architrave and keyed head, but this has been damaged. The outer bays have apsed niches for statues. There are carved relief panels of Portland stone set into the head of each of these bays above a plat band. It was joined on the right hand wall to the main block of Piercefield House, but this has been demolished. From the scarring on the wall this appears to have been no more than a corridor with a gabled roof leading to a small door. Photographs show this as a 5-bay arcade with a pitched roof. They also show that the pediment carried three statues and the roof a central lantern.

This must have been a top lit single room pavilion. The interior was not seen at resurvey. In 1819 the Drawing Room, Dining Room, and the Saloon containing the main staircase were in the central block while the attached pavilions were the Library and Music Room.