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ST6276 PARK ROAD, Stapleton 901-1/30/1967 (North West side) 04/03/77 Screen walls and piers to Sands Gate, Stoke Park (Formerly Listed as: PARK ROAD (West side) Screen walls and piers to entrance to Stoke Park (Duchess Gate))

GV II

Also known as: Duchess Gate PARK ROAD Stapleton. Entrance piers and screen walls. 1762. By Thomas Wright. Built by Thomas Paty. Limestone ashlar, squared Lias rubble, Pennant ashlar and rubble. A pair of moulded, panelled piers with moulded caps and iron lamp baskets. Side pedestrian gates, with smaller piers with vermiculated panels and caps. Screen walls with flat copings, containing a niche each side with fine Pennant arches, and shallow pilasters. Outer walls of Pennant rubble, the left-hand wall terminating in a gate with pyramidal cap. HISTORICAL NOTE: Sands Gate was the S carriage entrance to Stoke Park; the original gates were removed to Badminton. They were made in the forge approx 100m to the S on Broom Hill. Popularly known as Duchess Gate. (Garden History: Lambert D and Harding S: Thomas Wright at Stoke Park: London: 1989-).

Listing NGR: ST6211176669

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