Description

BRISTOL

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498024

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)