Description

ST4917
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MONTACUTE CP
THE BOROUGH (north side, off)
The north terrace, retaining wall and central steps, to Montacute House

GV
II
Terrace between house and sunken garden. C16, modified C19. Ham stone ashlar. The retaining wall about 7 metres north of house, and about 80 metres long: very deep plinth on north side, solid low walls with moulded copings, with square piers at intervals on which are set a variety of urn and vase finials, of which the largest flank the central staircase, nine steps down into garden, flanked by solid side walls ending with piers having vase finials: lengths of matching walling at east end of terrace, and also to the north end of the north garden, with obelisk finials.

(Girouard, M and others, Montacute House, National Trust, 1985).

Listing NGR: ST4997717193

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26543930

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]