Gothick Gatehouse To Hardwick Park

The Gothick Gatehouse to Hardwick Park is a gatehouse built around 1764 by James Paine for John Burdon. Constructed from sandstone ashlar, it features a long, rectangular plan with a circular tower attached to the rear of the left side. Designed as a faux ruin in the Gothick style, it incorporates medieval masonry from Guisborough Priory. The structure has a chamfered plinth and stepped buttresses. The front includes a pointed arch under a hoodmould that leads into a passage with a quadripartite rib vault, likely sourced from Guisborough Priory. There are fragments of a first-floor band to the right of the entrance and ruinous flanking walls. The circular tower, which is said to contain a spiral staircase, has a triple-chamfered plinth and a Tudor-arched doorway, along with a similar doorway and flat band above; the upper stages of the tower are missing. The rear features a similar pointed passage arch flanked by small semi-octagonal towers, with a circular window in a fragment of wall to the left. The gatehouse was already in a ruinous state at the time of the survey.

The Serpentine Bridge and Gothick Gatehouse were part of a group of seven landscape buildings designed by James Paine for Hardwick Park, although the other buildings have either been lost or are too fragmentary to be listed.