Walls Gate Piers And Pigsty To West And North Of Trafalgar House

NZ 2522 HEIGHINGTON HEIGHINGTON LANE (South side) 11/52 Walls, gate piers and pigsty to west and north of Trafalgar House GV II Garden and boundary walls, 2 sets of gate piers and pigsty. Circa 1815. Dressed sandstone garden walls with brick inner faces. Rubble perimeter wall with ashlar gate piers. Squared rubble pigsty with pantiled roof. L-plan. Tall flat-coped garden walls, west and north of Trafalgar House, enclose 3 sides of garden. Inner faces in English garden wall bond (3 and 1). 50-metre long west wall has quadrant ramp to north and tooled-and-margined quoins at south. 20-metre long north wall. 25-metre long east wall, on rear of dovecote (q.v.) has quadrant ramp and lower return section to house. Tall 90-metre long boundary wall, north of Trafalgar House, runs east from north-east corner of garden walls. Raked-down sections and triangular coping stones. 2 sets of tall gate piers: those at west with shallow rounded caps; those at east end, flanking main drive, with offset caps and quadrant linking walls. Lean-to pigsty, on inner face of boundary wall near centre, has 2 boarded doors, 2 partly-ruined flat-coped yard walls and a low monopitch roof with coped ends. Rubble extension wall, on south end of west garden wall, and lower rubble wall beyond eastern gate piers are not of special interest. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ2515022467