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

NZ 25 SW STANLEY BEAMISH 8/146 Garden wall, piers, gates, and house 1/10/86 attached at Beamish Hall Gardens GV II* Garden wall with gatepiers and gate in east side, gate in south side and bath house, now house, attached to north-east. Early C18, with C19 alterations. Wall brick with ashlar dressings; external leaf of west side is coursed sandstone rubble with plinth and quoins, and brick dressings; stone coping. Ashlar piers and wrought iron gates. House has ashlar south elevation with Welsh slate roof. Wall encloses rectangular garden; former heated wall on west side has 6 blocked low segmental brick flue arches; remainder of wall pilastered brick; all with flat stone coping. Boarded door under flat stone lintel in north part of west wall; inserted brick arch in south wall over round-headed wrought iron gate, dated 1849; 2 tall square piers in east side have chamfered rustication and wide cornices with urn finials; scroll-topped jambs hold single gate and flanking matching railings under overthrow of wide band of graduated scrolls, and finial of scroll and water-leaf patterns, with central cipher of letter W. Gates and railings have high spearhead dog-bars and intermediate bars. House attached has C19 temple-style front to garden of Beamish Hall (q.v.), with tetrastyle Tuscan pedimented portico; partly-glazed panelled door and flanking sashes with fine glazing bars. Steps along full width flanked by low flat-coped walls. The cipher W seems unlikely to relate to the Wray family for Thomas Wray sold Beamish Hall in 1671; it possibly refers to King William. East gates damaged at time of survey, and partly repaired with C20 nuts and bolts.

Listing NGR: NZ2092854692