South Terrace Wall at Downton Castle Downton, England
Listed Building Data
South Terrace Wall at Downton Castle has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1081763
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 11 May 1987
- Name
- SOUTH TERRACE WALL AT DOWNTON CASTLE
- Location
- SOUTH TERRACE WALL AT DOWNTON CASTLE
- Parish
- Downton
- District
- County of Herefordshire
- Grid Reference
- SO 44516 74703
- Easting
- 344515.8100
- Northing
- 274702.8300
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
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
