Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8418NW LONDON ROAD 844-1/10/186 (North side) Entrance Gates to Hillfield Gardens

GV II

Entrance gates to public gardens, formerly the gates to the grounds of Hillfield House, Denmark Road (qv). c1867. By Albert Estcourt for Charles Walker. Ashlar piers and balustrade, wrought-iron gates. Carriage gateway and pedestrian gateway to right set back between short quadrant balustrades. EXTERIOR: massive ashlar gate piers and similar piers at the outer corners of the flanking quadrant balustrades set on a vermiculated base; piers have moulded plinths, a recessed panel in each face, moulded cornices and capstones with semicircular lunettes on each face; balustrades with turned balusters and moulded copings linking with the cornices of the piers. Wrought-iron gates have a lower zone with an elaborate pattern in circles and an upper zone with finials on the intermediate rail and below the top rail between the standards. A short length of solid balustrade links the outer right hand pier with the Gate Lodge No.101 (qv).





Listing NGR: SO8427618969

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