Structure Status Assessment of Significance Waddesdon Manor Grade I Mansion. 1874-83, byGabriel- Hippolyte Alexandre Destailleur, for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild. Late c19th mansion Bath stone, steeply pitched slate roofs. In the style of a C16 French chateau, incorporating elements from Blois, Maintenon, Chambord and Chaumont. Approximately E-plan with circular staircase towers in angles with side wings. Other round towers to front of N.E. wing and to rear at S.W. corner. Small wing added to S.W. 1889; Service wing attached to N.E. with Bachelors'wing altered 1890s by Andre Destailleur, to rear. 2 storeys and attic. Main range has 7 bays articulated by paired pilasters, entablatures, and parapet with wave ornament and large carved urn finials. Ground floor has arched windows, balustraded aprons, and Composite pilasters. First floor has stone mullion and transom windows, and panelled aprons and pilasters. Attic dormers with flanking festoon scrolls and elaborate gables. Tall panelled chimneys with segmental pediments on scroll modillion cornices. Centre bay has projection with rusticated quoins and separate pavilion roof, the first floor with French doors between Composite columns, the attic having an elaborate dormer with oculus in cartouche, swan-neck pediment on paired scrolls, and urn finial. Ground floorhas projecting porch with segmental arches, paired Composite columns, and strapwork parapet with urn finials and central heraldic crest. Domed staircase towers with spiral balustrades, the attic storey with carved terms. Side wings have panelled pilasters, entablatures, mock machicolations below plain attic storeys, and very steep pavilion roofs with parapets and tall urn finials. Round tower to left with steep conical roof. 1889 extension to right is similar to side wings but with elaborate doorway and bay window in decorated Gothic style to rear. Fine S.E. front, the end bays and centre-piece with arched windows and Composite columns. Appendix IV Waddesdon Estate, Manor and Grounds 1 Structure Status Assessment of Significance Stables including 1 and 2, Grade II Stables and coach-houses with 2 cottages. Circa 1880 by H.A. Destailleur for Baron Ferdinand de Stable Cottages Rothschild. Roughcast with red brick and stone dressings, steeply pitched slate roofs with Late c19th stable and sprocketted eaves, brick chimneys with off-set heads. In C16-C17 French style with ranges around coach house 3 sides of a courtyard, wall across fourth side, and projecting cottage pavilions. One storey and an attic. Brick plinth with moulded stone coping, brick pilasters with stone capitals, moulded stone cornice. Brick surrounds to openings with stone key and impost blocks. Left wing of 10 bays has coach-houses with double doors and fanlights in segmental arches. Right wing has similar arches but more irregular doors and windows to stables. Far range of 4 bays has double doors flanking central windows. Attic has dormer windows with brick side scrolls, and stone voussoirs and pediments, the right wing with plainer intermediate dormers. Central dormer of far range is of stone with panelled pilasters, carved badge of 5 crossed arrows in broken segmental pediment, and clock instead of window. 2 storey Cottage pavilions are more elaborate with stone quoining, plinth, band course, cornice and through-storey window surrounds. 2 bays of sash windows to front, one bay to each side, the lower windows with panelled aprons, the dormers in shouldered stone architrave surrounds with pediments above. Doors to inner sides. Wall across front of courtyard is of brick with stone plinth, simple entablature and banded pilasters, each pilaster with carved stone mask-head bracket. Rusticated gate piers with panelled frieze and moulded capitals. Far range has attached cast iron water pump with stone basin. Appendix IV Waddesdon Estate, Manor and Grounds 2 Structure Status Assessment of Significance Statue of horse to centre Grade II Statue of horse. Mid-late C19, signed 'Sir E.J. Boehm Bart.R.A./ C. Broad and Son Founders of stable courtyard London.' Possibly a study for an equestrian portrait of Wellington. Bronze. Horse stands with head Mid-late c19th statuary and neck arched down, front left foot raised and back right foot slightly raised. Stone plinth with 1 on statue location map moulded base. (Terence Hodgkinson, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Sculpture, 1970, Catalogue No. 70) Water tank below mound Grade II Circa 1880. Brick, the mound above dotted with picturesque man-made outcrops of Pulham rock. with Pulham rock Entrance has arched double doors with rustic decoration of small split branches, set in an artificial formations cavern of similar rocks. Interior not seen. Used as a water tank to feed the fountain. Appendix IV Waddesdon Estate, Manor and Grounds 3 Structure Status Assessment of Significance Appendix IV Waddesdon Estate, Manor and Grounds 4 Structure Status Assessment of Significance The Aviary Grade II Aviary. 1889, for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, restored 1960-66. Cast iron, metal lattice and wire Aviary c. 1889 mesh. Crescent-shaped with central and end pavilions. Rococo in style with slender cast iron shafts and lattice work pilasters dividing bays, and upper borders with elaborate scrolls and shell motifs. Curving ranges of cages, each of 4 bays, have roof in form of a pointed barrel vault, mesh to front pitch, enclosed to rear. End pavilions have shallow metal domes, slightly arched over each side. Central pavilion has glazed dome and rear wall of ashlar in form of grotto with wide segmental niche for fountain, piers with shaggy rustication, and tall flanking shell niches. Fountain has carved marble figure of Minerva, early C18 of Italian origin, reclining on rocks of tufa, with flanking marble tritons. Shell niches contain C17 Italian carved marble figures of a triton and a nereid sitting on twisted conch shells. Aviary has attached flanking walls of ashlar, the end piers with moulded capitals and bases. (T. Hodgkinson, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Sculpture, 1970, Catalogue Nos. 65, 77 and 78). Fountain of Triton and Grade II Fountain. Early C18, sculpture by Giuliano Mozani. Circular basin with moulded stone coping and Nereids 250m N of carved marble figures. To centre are a triton and nereid on an upturned shell. Flanking nereids Waddesdon Manor riding on sea-monsters. Part of a fountain originally at the Ducal Palace at Colorno near Parma, of Early c18th sculpture and which the fountain of Pluto and Proserpine, to S. of Manor was also a part. Brought to Waddesdon fountain late C19 by Ferdinand de Rothschild. (Terence Hodgkinson, The James A. de Rothschild Collection 2 on statue location map at Waddesdon Manor: Sculpture, 1970 (hereafter Catalogue), Catalogue No.67). Appendix IV Waddesdon Estate, Manor and Grounds 5 Structure Status Assessment of Significance 6 Terms around fountain of Triton and Nereids Grade II 6 terms. Early - mid C18 half-figures of French or Italian origin on later pedestals. Carved marble. Early to mid-c18th statuary To S. of fountain term represents Syrinx, a woman being turned into reeds. To.E. is a figure of Pan with goat-skin, staff and panpipes. Figures to N.W. of fountain represent the 4 Seasons in the 3 on statue location map characters of Flora, Ceres, Bacchus and Saturn. (Catalogue no. 103) Appendix IV Waddesdon Estate, Manor and Grounds 6 Structure Status Assessment of Significance Pair of urns c.200m to N.W. of Waddesdon Manor Grade II Pair of large ornamental garden urns. Late C19. White marble. Each urn has gadrooned base, at N. end of drives moulded rim and spirally fluted stem. Pair of large ornamental garden urns 4 on statue location map Statue of Hercules and Grade II Statue. Early C18, by Giovanni Baratta, probably for a villa near Lucca. Carved marble. Figure of the Nemean Lion c. 180m Hercules tearing apart the lion's jaw. Pedestal with moulded base and cornice, the sides having to N of Waddesdon Manor carved mask-heads and festoons, the front and rear bowed outwards with armorial crest to front. Early 18thc statuary (Catalogue No. 68) 5 on statue location map Appendix IV Waddesdon Estate, Manor and Grounds 7 Structure Status Assessment of Significance Statue of Apollo Grade II Statue. Circa 1699, attributed to Jean Raon, originally for Versailles. Carved marble. Nude figure of Triumphant over Python Apollo with draped cloak, bow and quiver or arrows, standing on python. C19 stone base. c 40m to N. of (Catalogue No. 92) Waddesdon Manor 6 on statue location map Pair of urns c.25m. to N.W. of Waddesdon Manor Grade II Pair of ornamental urns at S. ends of drives. C17, Netherlandish. Carved marble. Relief scenes of 7 on statue location map nymphs and satyrs, scroll handles with mask-heads, no lids. C19 stone pedestals with panelled sides. (Catalogue Nos. 108 and 109.) Appendix IV Waddesdon Estate, Manor and Grounds 8 Structure Status Assessment of Significance Pair of lamps at S. end of Main Avenue, Grade II Pair of lamps. Probably early-mid C18, French or Italian. Elaborately carved marble balusters, the c.50m.to N.W. of Waddesdon Manor base with bucrania and festoons, the upper sections with mask-heads, medallions, lions feet and 8 on statue location map acanthus ornament. C19 globe lamps to tops. Statue of Venus arming Grade II Statue. Mid C18, French. Falsely signed "fec. Girardon 1668". Carved marble. Seated figure of Cupid, in recess at E. end Venus arming young Cupid with bow and arrows. C19 marble pedestal with shaped panels of pink of upper S. terrace. marble. (Catalogue No. 76) 9 on statue location map Appendix IV Waddesdon Estate, Manor and Grounds 9 Structure Status Assessment of Significance Pair of statues of young lovers at E. end of upper S. terrace.