Description

PAIGNTON

SX8861 TORQUAY ROAD
1947-1/4/103 (West side)
Terrace wall with 14 urns to terrace
east and south-east of Oldway
Mansion

GV II

Terrace walls, incorporating flight of steps, surmounted by
urns. c1904-1907, probably contemporary with the remodelling
of Oldway Mansion for Paris Singer. Grounds laid out by A
Duchesne, a leading French formal landscape architect. Urns
stamped Val d'Osne, 58 Boulevarde Voltaire, Paris. Walls local
red breccia rubble, partly faced in concrete and surmounted by
concrete coping; stone steps; cast-iron urns.
The walls retain a long terrace running along the east front
of the house and extending south.
Plain, coped concrete walls surmounted by set of 13 identical
urns, decorated with satyrs' head handles with a plain central
band separating formal foliage decoration; plainer urn at
south end.
Part of the setting of Oldway Mansion (qv) which has a number
of garden items contemporary with the early C20 recasting of
the house.
(Torbay Borough Council: Oldway Mansion, Paignton; The
Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
839-840).

Listing NGR: SX8882461473

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503366

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