Bridge Drive Walls And Gate Piers On North Approach To Hall

Bridge, drive walls, and gate piers on the north approach to Longhirst Hall date from the early 19th century. They are made of tooled-and-margined stone. The many-stepped walls, which have gabled coping, flank the approach to the Hall and form the parapets of a bridge with a semicircular arch and arch ring. At the west end of the drive, plain piers flank the lane that continues west, while square piers with pyramidal caps, which hold a late 19th-century ornamental wooden gate, flank the Hall entrance on the south. To the east, the north wall ends in a square pier with a pyramidal cap, and the south wall is not of interest beyond a later entry to the Hall gardens.