Gates, Gatepiers And Crescent Walls At Entrance To Nunthorpe Hall

The gates, gatepiers, and crescent walls at the entrance to Nunthorpe Hall were built in 1901. They feature sandstone ashlar piers and chevron-tooled dressed sandstone walls with tooled borders, complemented by iron gates. The gates are flanked by crescent-shaped screen walls with outer piers. Each gate has an arrow-spiked dograil, a geometric-pattern lockrail, and vertical end panels that are scrolled and decorated with waterleaves. The central oval medallion displays the entwined monogram of Pease, surrounded by acanthus and a scrolled crest, along with a scrolled mock overthrow adorned with waterleaves. Each gatepier includes a central pilaster strip, vermiculate-rusticated bands, a moulded plinth and cornices, and a pineapple finial on a stem. The walls are topped with chamfered copings, and the similar outer piers have ogee caps. The boundary walls next to the outer piers to the north and south, as well as a late 20th-century brick and concrete outbuilding at the rear of the south crescent wall, are not considered of special interest. This structure is included for its group value.