TERRACES AND TERRACE GARDENS. 



In some cases the terraces may even rise from the house on one side while they 

 fall on another, as at Blicking Hall and Tissington and partly at Haddon Hall, or as 

 at Graythwaite Hall (No. 399), and again at Wood, in North Devonshire (No. 409). 

 Everything depends on the natural fall of the ground. 



Although terraces are usually level, circumstances may sometimes arise which will Terraces 

 allow them to follow to a limited extent the slope of a steep hill, as in the hillside with cross 

 garden designed for Henry Martin, Esq., of Windermere (111. Nos. 109 and no). Again, 

 on very steep hillsides, or where the whole face of the country for a mile or more in 

 each direction slopes all 

 one way, a terrace 

 finished to a true level 

 would appear to dip 

 into the ground on the 

 side which originally was 

 highest, to rectify which 

 it may be necessary to 

 give the surface a slight 

 cross fall of, say, one foot 

 in fifty in the direction 

 of the slope of the hill- 

 side on which it stands. 

 In fact, there are few 

 terraces, even where the 

 ground below them 

 slopes only slightly, 

 which would not be 

 improved by a drop of 

 a few inches from the 

 side nearest the house 

 to the retaining wall. 

 As, however, the greater 

 part of the filled-up 

 portion is on t he side 

 farthest from the house, 

 this is a matter which 

 usually takes care of 

 itself, for after the 

 ground has been made 

 as solid as possible and 

 paved or gravelled to a 

 truly level surface a 

 little settlement in the 



filled portions is sure to take place. Nevertheless, every effort should br made to get the 

 ground solid before finishing the surface, or the settlement may be excessive. In some 

 districts this is best done by watering with a hose, but in most materials, ramming 

 must be resorted to. Even after thoroughly ramming or watering, or both, time must be 

 allowed to elapse before the surface is made up, and some settlement may go on for 

 twelve months or more where the filling is deep or the material contains much fibrous 

 or other organic matter. 



The various levels of a terrace scheme having been decided upon it becomes neces- 

 sary to consider the treatment of the lines of division between one level and another. 



FIG. 110. TERRACED EFFECT ON A STEEP HILLSIDE. 



