Description

SX 69 NE SOUTH TAWTON

1/188 Gate posts and gates approximately
350 metres south-west of Wood
House
GV II

Gate posts and gates to the main entrance drive of Wood House (q.v.). 1899-1905 by
Thomas Mawson. Granite ashlar with some roughcast brick or stone rubble; wrought
iron gates.
Plan and description: the gateway is set back a short distance from the road to the
west. Granite ashlar gate posts are square in section with chamfered plinths and
soffit-moulded caps surmounted by obelisks with wrought iron fleur-de-lys finials.
The gate piers and full height double gates are wrought iron. Double lock bars and
double top rails infilled with scrollwork. The gate piers are surmounted by
scrolled finials and the centre of the gateway has an ornate crest in the manner of
an overthrow. The top panel of each gate contains an heraldic device in a circular
frame. Either side of the gate posts a wall projects outward then turns at an angle
projecting forwards and outwards. This wall is made up of roughcast panels defined
by rusticated granite ashlar. In front a low quadrant fence of plain granite posts
with iron rails between.
This is the main gateway to the drive through the grounds to Wood House. It is part
of the extensive landscaped garden scheme conceived by Mawson to go with the
rebuilding of Wood House (q.v.). Mawson himself considered the whole scheme as one
of his major achievements.
Source: T H Mawson The Art and Craft of Garden Making, (5th edition) includes
copious notes and illustrations of Wood House.

Listing NGR: SX6529795712

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26592741

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)