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Latitude: 55.8238 / 55°49'25"N
Longitude: -2.4476 / 2°26'51"W
OS Eastings: 372052
OS Northings: 659043
OS Grid: NT720590
Mapcode National: GBR C1B3.W5
Mapcode Global: WH8WT.CWP8
Plus Code: 9C7VRHF2+GW
Entry Name: Main Entrance With Boundary Wall And Turning Point, Whitchester
Listing Name: Whitchester House, Main Entrance Including Quadrant Walls, Railings, Piers, Gatepiers, Gates and Turning Point
Listing Date: 19 August 1998
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392595
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45634
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200392595
Location: Longformacus
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire
Parish: Longformacus
Traditional County: Berwickshire
Tagged with: Building
Later 19th century. Set to NE of Whitchester House.
MAIN ENTRANCE: low coped quadrant walls flanking recessed central entrance with decorative wrought-iron railings; panelled octagonal-plan, ball-finialled iron piers to outer ends. Paired sandstone ashlar octagonal piers at centre with tiered caps and ball finials; central 2 leaf decorative wrought-iron gates; decorative pedestrian entrance gates in flanking bays.
TURNING POINT: low coped unbroken quadrant wall opposite entrance forming turning area; decorative wrought-iron railings; 2 scrolled brackets to rear; panelled octagonal-plan, ball finialled iron pier to outer right (missing to left).
An impressive entrance to Whitchester House with an unusual semicircular turning point. See separate list entry for the nearby walled garden associated with the house.
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