Description

SJ 4087 HARTHILL ROAD
ALLERTON

392-0/0/10003 Entrance gateway
to Beechley

GV II

Entrance gateway to merchant's villa. c.1836. Red sandstone
ashlar gate piers and walls, wrought-iron gates. An inner and an
outer pair of gate piers linked by S-shaped walls; both pairs of
gate piers are square in section and approx. 3 metres high, with
shallow moulded pyramidal caps; the inner pair are of rusticated
masonry and the outer pair are plain monoliths. The S-shaped
linking walls are almost full height, with plinths and flat
copings, the outer sides faced with 4 courses of large
rectangular grooved blocks. The inner pair of piers carry a pair
of sturdy-wrought-iron gates with plain bar railings, dog-bars
which are alternately wavy and straight, and pairs of scrolled
panels in the upper part. Forms group with Beechley (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ4007187492

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26544764

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