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Latitude: 51.4282 / 51°25'41"N
Longitude: -2.0375 / 2°2'15"W
OS Eastings: 397488
OS Northings: 169911
OS Grid: ST974699
Mapcode National: GBR 2T0.FNX
Mapcode Global: VHB41.MCQH
Plus Code: 9C3VCXH6+7X
Entry Name: Terraces Balustrades and Steps to South and East of Bowood House
Listing Date: 31 July 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1253102
English Heritage Legacy ID: 436232
ID on this website: 101253102
Location: Wiltshire, SN11
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Calne Without
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Derry Hill Christ Church
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Architectural structure
ST 96 NE CALNE WITHOUT BOWOOD
5/13 Terraces, balustrades and steps
to south and east of Bowood House
GV II
Terraces, balustrades and steps, 1817-18 by Sir R. Smirke, 1851-3
by G. Kennedy, c1865 and with some remodelling after 1955 on site
of demolished main house. Ashlar. South front Upper Terrace by
Smirke has Jacobean style pierced roundels to balustrades, piers
with stone vases and centre steps flanked by eroded pair of reliefs
by W. Theed c1860 and two bronze stags marked M. Geiss, Berlin.
Retaining wall and similar balustrade extend along west end of
Lower Terrace, by Kennedy, to an ornate ashlar Italianate pavilion.
Lower Terrace has horseshoe steps up at west end flanking lion-mask
fountain, the top parapet now carrying stone nude by D. Wynne 1978.
East end has rounded stone seat. Dwarf walls in gardens have 4
stone lions formerly on gatepiers to main house. Long south
balustrade with turned balusters and central steps down. Terrace
east of the house, c1865, has similar Jacobean style balustrading
on retaining wall and also along east side of lower garden.
(Country Life, 22.6.1972)
Listing NGR: ST9748869911
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