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

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)