Description

SK 4379
11/102
31.1.67

PARISH OF ECKINGTON
PARK HILL
Entrance gateway, railings and boundary walling to Renishaw Hall
(formerly listed as main gates including railings and piers, Renishaw Hall)

II

Gateway, incorporating stone gatepiers, ornamental iron gates
and railings and stone boundary walls. Mid C19. Ashlar
rusticated gatepiers to central gateway, and to ends of flanking
masonry walls, square in plan, approximately 2.5 metres high,
each rising off a shallow plinth, with a moulded cornice
supporting a steep pyramidal cap on a squared base. The piers
are widely spaced to accommodate two pairs of openwork piers of
cast and wrought iron, forming gatepiers to flanking cast iron
pedestrian gables, which support lampiron overthrows. Central
carriage gates with gothic pointed arches to decorative
arcading. Flanking the gatepiers are serpentine masonry walls
on sloping ground, between 0.5 and 1 metre high, with an ashlar
saddleback coping. The walls support decorative cast iron
railings, and four openwork piers with lampirons over.

Listing NGR: SK4334679081

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26648597

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