Entrance Gates, Piers And Boundary Walls Adjoining South Side Of South Lodge

NZ61NW GUISBOROUGH WHITBY ROAD (NORTH SIDE)

3/212 Entrance gates, piers and boundary walls adjoining S. side of South Lodge.

GV II

Entrance gateway (to Gisborough Hall), piers and linking boundary/curtain wall. c.1857. (Possibly by M.W. (or S.S.*) Teulon, who designed Gisborough Hall). Dressed sandstone walls, sandstone ashlar piers, Two outer piers with moulded cornice capitals, ball finials and panelled sides. Boundary/curtain walls, with plinth and moulded copings, curve inwards from the outer piers to meet matching gatepiers supporting cast-concrete demi sea-wolves (crest of Chaloner Family). Pedestrian doorway, with moulded architrave and timber gates, either side of gate piers. Main double gates are panelled timber with iron fittings, in Jacobean style. The S. bay window of South Lodge is built into the E. boundary/curtain wall. The listing includes the adjoining high boundary walls fronting onto Whitby Road and running 60m. to E. and 85m. to W. c.1857. Dressed sandstone with pointed coping.

• N. Pevsner, ".... Yorkshire N. .Riding, " 1966, p.179.

Listing NGR: NZ6231116042