Boundary Walls And Transverse Wall Enclosing Former Kirkleatham Gardens

REDCAR KIRKLEATHAM NZ 52 SE 4/67 Boundary walls and transverse wall enclosing 12.6.73 former Kirkleatham Gardens G.V. II

Boundary walls and transverse wall of former kitchen gardens, mid/late C17. North wall partly rebuilt and raised in C18, and east end partly rebuilt in late C20. West wall raised by 2 courses, and middle section partly rebuilt mid/late C19. South wall rebuilt mid/late C18, south side refaced mid/late C19; mid C19 short return at west end. Middle wall partly rebuilt mid/late C18 and at west end mid/late C19. Brick, with stone dressings to gatepiers and flat stone and concrete copings. High north wall has pilaster strips on north face. Blocked central entrance has gatepiers, each with moulded plinth, cornice and cap; strengthened with additional brickwork on inner face; finials missing. Slightly-projecting side entrance, with blocked round-headed opening, at west end; matching entrance at east end, rebuilt late C20, with plain piers and renewed timber double gates; finials missing. Lower east and west walls have pilaster strips on outer faces. East wall has no coping; several upper courses missing at south end ; demolished section south of house. South wall has 3 round-headed openings; several copings missing; raked down to lower west wall. Was heated wall and retains 3 square-ended iron shafts (for control handles) in stone surrounds in north face, west of middle opening; probably used to control dampers, etc., in core of wall. Middle wall raked down to lower west wall at west of round-headed opening. East end demolished. Copings mostly missing. Remains of bothies adjoining north face of middle wall and remains of house and walls adjacent to east wall, are too ruinous to be of special interest. Gardens disused and walls dilapidated at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: NZ5939221682