Description

SD 73 SE HAPTON

3/6 Arched gateway and garden wall
attached to south front of
Shuttleworth Hall
-

GV II*

Arched gateway and wall enclosing garden to front of Shuttleworth Hall, C17.
Coursed sandstone blocks, dressed pitched 2-course coping with moulded
ridge. Wall c.1 ½ metres high forming 3 sides of rectangular enclosure c.25
metres long and 15 metres wide, incorporating on its south side in line with
the porch of the house a moulded segmental-headed gateway with crow-stepped
parapet (lacking ball finial) and wooden doors with ornamental iron hinges;
coping of wall on east side incorporates a small octagonal pedestal with
carved panel on the outer face lettered at the head in relief "CH" (incised
on the reverse "EA") - this said to be pedestal of sundial, but too high to
be read from ground level; coping of wall on west side lacks the upper
course. (Reference: VCH vol.6, p.511).

Listing NGR: SD7838032229

Selected Sources

• Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911), 511

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