Garden Wall, Piers, Gates, And House Attached At Beamish Hall Gardens

The garden wall, piers, gates, and house attached at Beamish Hall Gardens date from the early 18th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. The wall features brick construction with ashlar dressings, while the external leaf of the west side is made of coursed sandstone rubble, complete with a plinth and quoins, and brick dressings. It has stone coping. The ashlar piers support wrought iron gates, with a gate located on the east side and another on the south side. The attached house has an ashlar south elevation and a Welsh slate roof. The wall encloses a rectangular garden, and the former heated wall on the west side has six blocked low segmental brick flue arches. The rest of the wall is pilastered brick, all topped with flat stone coping. A boarded door is located under a flat stone lintel in the north part of the west wall, while the south wall features an inserted brick arch above a round-headed wrought iron gate dated 1849.

On the east side, there are two tall square piers with chamfered rustication and wide cornices topped with urn finials. The scroll-topped jambs support a single gate and matching flanking railings, which are adorned with a wide band of graduated scrolls and a finial featuring scroll and water-leaf patterns, along with a central cipher of the letter W. The gates and railings are equipped with high spearhead dog-bars and intermediate bars. The attached house has a 19th-century temple-style front facing the garden of Beamish Hall, characterized by a tetrastyle Tuscan pedimented portico, a partly-glazed panelled door, and flanking sash windows with fine glazing bars. The steps leading up to the house span the full width and are flanked by low flat-coped walls. The cipher W is thought to possibly refer to King William, as it is unlikely to relate to the Wray family, who sold Beamish Hall in 1671. At the time of the survey, the east gates were damaged and had been partly repaired with 20th-century nuts and bolts.