SOUTH TERRACE WALL AT DOWNTON CASTLE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1081763
Date first listed:: 11-May-1987
List Entry Name:: SOUTH TERRACE WALL AT DOWNTON CASTLE
Statutory Address:: SOUTH TERRACE WALL AT DOWNTON CASTLE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1081763
Date first listed:: 11-May-1987
List Entry Name:: SOUTH TERRACE WALL AT DOWNTON CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTH TERRACE WALL AT DOWNTON CASTLE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SOUTH TERRACE WALL AT DOWNTON CASTLE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Downton
National Grid Reference:: SO 44516 74703

Details

DOWNTON CP SO 47 SW 3/21 South terrace wall at Downton Castle GV II South terrace wall. Late C18 by Richard Payne Knight. Sandstone ashlar. Varies up to about 15 feet high (depending upon ground level) with battered sides to south and embattled parapet with loopholes in merlons and ridge coping. Approximately 200 yards long. It has a central semi-circular buttressed projection together with other irregularly shaped projections at each end, that at the western end incorporating a gateway. It is also interrupted at irregular intervals by square and circular turrets. The south terrace was designed by Payne Knight to extend and enhance the setting of Downton Castle in a landscape that was left in a wild and natural state. He was opposed to the gentle, contrived landscapes of Capability Brown, claiming a greater respect for nature in its raw state. (Country Life, XLii 60, p 36-42; BoE, p l17-8)J

Listing NGR: SO4451074700

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 150200
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 117-8
'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 60, (1917), 36-42
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.