Buscot Park: East Pavilion With Attached Terrace Walls and Gatepier
EAST PAVILION WITH ATTACHED TERRACE WALLS AND GATEPIER, BUSCOT PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052682
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Buscot Park: East Pavilion With Attached Terrace Walls and Gatepier
- Statutory Address:
- EAST PAVILION WITH ATTACHED TERRACE WALLS AND GATEPIER, BUSCOT PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052682
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Buscot Park: East Pavilion With Attached Terrace Walls and Gatepier
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST PAVILION WITH ATTACHED TERRACE WALLS AND GATEPIER, BUSCOT PARK
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- EAST PAVILION WITH ATTACHED TERRACE WALLS AND GATEPIER, BUSCOT PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buscot
- National Grid Reference:
- SU2434696809
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/09/2012
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BUSCOT
Buscot Park, east pavilion with attached terrace walls and gatepier.
(Formerly listed as Buscot Park, east pavilion with attached tonne walls and gatepier)
(Formerly listed with Buscot Park)
GV
II
Pavilion (part of country house). Circa 1935 by Geddes Hyslop for 2nd Baron
Faringdon. Limestone ashlar. 7-bay range running parallel with main axis
of mansion (q.v.) has both ends porticoed with 4 Tuscan Doric columns in
antis and roundels in pediments. Longer side breaks forward in the wider
middle bay which contains an open archway below a triangular pediment. Roof
has a central cupola. Barrel-vaulted passage is decorated with frescoes of
a Socialist theme by Lord Hastings. Stone retaining walls punctuated by low
piers with vases and by flights of steps extend along the east side of the
north terrace, and to south ramp up to a raised balustrade adjoining the
panelled northern pier of the south-east gateway to the forecourt. The
walls form part of an elaborate formal landscape scheme surrounding the
mansion. (q.v. also west pavilion and south screen.) (Country Life, 18,
25 May 1940; National Trust Guidebook to Buscot Park).
Listing NGR: SU2434696809
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251483
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Guidebook to Buscot Park, ()
Country Life in 25 May, Vol. 18, (1940)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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