Description

YANWORTH STOWELL PARK SP 01 SE 7/103 Gatehouses, gate piers and gates c90m south of Stowell Park House GV II Two gatehouses, and attached gate piers and gates probably designed by Sir John Belcher 1886-98: Gatehouses; coursed squared and dressed limestone, stone slate roof, ashlar stacks. Walls connecting gatehouses to gate piers and wall right of right-hand gatehouse; coursed squared and dressed limestone. Ashlar gate piers, wrought and cast-iron gates. Left-hand gatehouse (as viewed from garden) square, single unit plan set diagonally to gatepiers, right-hand gatehouse with similar basic plan with extension on right. Both gatehouses 2 storeys. C20 plank door with fillets within 'Tudor'-arched surround with carved spandrels and stopped hood off-centre right of left-hand gatehouse. Two-light stone- mullioned casement with cinquefoil-headed lights and stopped hood to first floor. C20 plank door with fillets within 'Tudor'-arched surround off-centre right of right-hand gatehouse right of stone steps up to similar first floor doorway. Two-light cinquefoil- headed stone-mullioned window with stopped hood right of door, similar single light left. Single rectangular light with stopped hood to first floor of extension right. Pyramidal roofs with ball finials, hipped roof to extension right. Lateral stacks, one diagonally set. Walls c2m high link gatehouses to gatepiers. Cappings ramped up at either end. Square piers with fielded panels and moulded cappings and ornate urn finials decorated with fruit and flowers and cherub-like heads. Single gate incorporating some foliate wrought-ironwork. Deer's head at apex of gate. Gatehouse interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP0874612935

External Links

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