Landscape record 0103402000 - TAPLOW COURT (GD1597)

GRADE II. C19 FORMAL GARDENS, WITH ADJACENT LAWNS & WOODLAND WALKS. OVAL OF LAWN IN FORECOURT. C17 WALLED GARDEN NOW CAR PARK. C19 FORMAL GEOMETRICAL GARDEN TO N OF HOUSE OUTLINED BY BOX HEDGES. BOWLING GREEN FURTHER N.W OF HOUSE LAWNS WITH C18 URNS & CEDAR WALK. C19 ROOT HOUSE DESTROYED C.1950 (MORE DETAIL) (B7).
During the summers of 1995-9, the Taplow Archaeological Survey Team excavated 5 trenches around the house and in the churchyard of the old St Nicholas church. Trench 1 revealed a small stub of randomed coursed chalk wall (three courses survived). Post-medieval brick walls and a heavily mortared floor were thought to be the remains of the laboratory built for the Earl of Orkney and demolished in 1833. The trench also contained various modern services. Trench 2 was cut through the bank running along the west wall of Garden of Tranquility. The bank was found to contain a conglomeration of mortared together brickwork and large blocks of worked and faced masonry, plus pottery from all periods. Trench 3 revealed a portion of a sub-circular ditch. Trench 4 exposed a further segment of the ditch, a shallow trench, a double posthole and the remains of a small pit. Trench 5 again revealed the ditch along with two medium sized pits and an irregular line of postholes (B9-11).
Architects' plans of existing and proposed layouts of buildings in grounds of Taplow Court (B13).
Brief account of the gardens in early August 1833 (B14).
Brown's account book and correspondence record payments in 1778 and 1779 for making plans of Taplow (B16).