Description

HAWKHURST RYE ROAD TQ 7630-7730 (north side) 17/412 Quadrant walls and gte piers to Tongswood Drive GV II Quadrant walls and gate piers. Early C20. Red brick and ashlar details with cast or wrought iron railings. Free Baroque revival style. Stone, panelled gatepiers with modillion cornice to ball-finial (ball lost on right hand pier), with brick quadrant walls sweeping in concave curves to left and to right, the cornice depressed in semi-circular sweeps filled with lengths of spear-head rails with scrolled centre panels, with pedimented central feature. The quadrants terminated by lower stone piers, the walls ramped down and extending some 10 yards to right, and about 40 yards to left. The central iron carriage gate is missing. Formerly the main entrance to the Tongswood estate.

Listing NGR: TQ7746030185

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