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Listed building outline: Terrace Wall With 14 Urns To Terrace East And South East Of Oldway Mansion 383874

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Terrace Wall With 14 Urns To Terrace East And South East Of Oldway Mansion 383874

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.567027 50.443148,-3.567059 50.442774,-3.567070...
• entry-date: 1993-10-25
• listed-building: 1208283
• name: Terrace Wall With 14 Urns To Terrace East And South East Of Oldway Mansion
• notes: 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
• reference: 383874
• start-date: 1993-10-25