Gates, Piers, Screen And Wall At Hough Gates

Hough Gates features a set of gates, piers, a screen, and a wall, dating from the early 18th century. The structure is made of wrought iron, ashlar, and brick. It has central double drive gates flanked by wrought iron piers, with an overthrow and lateral screens supported by low 20th-century brick walls topped with ashlar coping. The gates are designed with closely spaced square railings that include dog bars set between arrow heads. The lock rail has notched button points, and the gates are topped with a basket arch that mirrors the stretcher of the overthrow. The piers are decorated with C and S-scrolls, while the overthrow features the Wilbraham arms. The decorative elements include waved bars, S, G, and C-scrolls, and water leaves. The lateral screens are topped with spear head finials and divided by smaller piers with scroll capitals. Additional scrolls are present near the iron piers of the central gates and the lateral brick piers. The design elements, such as the waved bars, flat-sided oval shapes, notched button points above the lock rail, and the absence of a lock panel, along with the elongated arched top, suggest the work of Robert Bakewell of Derby or his assistant Benjamin Yates.