Description

TALATON
SX 09 NE
6/158 Terrace walls and steps adjoining
to south of Escot
GV II

Terrace walls and steps. 1838, contemporary with the main house, by Henry Roberts
for Sir John Kennaway. Volcanic stone ashlar with limestone ashlar parapets and
vases. The lawn on the south and west sides of Escot (q.v.) is on a raised terrace.
The front (south) edge is revetted by a battered wall of rock-faced stone blocks
and the centre breaks forward with canted sides. Immediately to east of the centre
projection the terrace is 2 stages. Steps lead down to a path which leads round
the east end to another flight of steps, these down to the basement level of the
entrance forcourt. there is a small flight of steps down from the terrace at the
west end of the front. Along the top is a limestone parapet containing balustrades
of stone balusters in the same style as the parapet of the main house. The parapet
is missing from the front of the half terrace; there are a series of stone vases
here.

Listing NGR: SY0823798097

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26456370

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)