Listing Text

TL 1824 PRESTON SCHOOL LANE
(East side)

9/109 Park wall facing School Lane
and 2 pairs of gatepiers and
flanking walls at Main Gate
to Princess Helena College,
opposite Crunnell's Green

GV II

Park wall and 2 pairs of gatepiers and flanking walls. Circa 1908 by
E.L. Lutyens as entrance to Temple Dinsley for H.G. Fenwick. Present
pair of iron gates after 1935 for Princess Helena College. Park wall
plum brick in English-bond with tile creasing to half-round coping
bricks above sloping scarcement. Lighter red bricks for angle of
semi-circular embayment to gates. Similar but narrower light red brick
and Portland stone dressings to gatepiers. Wall about 1.75M high
interrupted by 2 gateways asymmetrically placed in semi-circle.
Northerly gateway in use as main entrance to college. Other has field
gate and formerly led to farm buildings. 4 piers identical, about 5ft x
2.5ft x loft high with broader faces to front and rear. Each has a
squared stone plinth projecting slightly and is capped by an
overhanging stone moulded cornice with swept locking semi-
circular wide niche with moulded sill and apron, hemicycle gauged brick
and tile head. Keystone to arch and recessed spandrels. Brick check for
gate with hollow chamfered stone top. Both faces of all 4 piers the
same. Excellent brick craftsmanship.

Listing NGR: TL1811224666