Survey Data
Reg No
15704229
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Garden
In Use As
Garden
Date
1810 - 1840
Coordinates
302131, 116848
Date Recorded
14/02/2010
Date Updated
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Description
"Terrace Garden", extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with part repointed boundary wall to perimeter having moss-covered lichen-spotted cut-granite roll moulded coping centred on flight of eight cut-granite steps. Now disused. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Johnstown Castle.
Appraisal
A "Terrace Garden" contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Johnstown Castle estate. NOTE: No evidence survives of the short-lived 'beautiful temple…which presents two light and finely-wrought open arches to the south and one of the same description to the east and west [behind which] an elegant alcove…is furnished with chairs and loungers whereon visitors may rest and enjoy ease and comfort even in comparatively ungenial weather' (Lacy 1863, 439-40).