Roadside Wall And Gatepiers, And The West Terrace Walls At Utkinton Hall

The roadside wall and gatepiers, along with the west terrace walls at Utkinton Hall, date from around 1700 and were built for Sir John Crewe, with some 20th-century additions. The structure features tooled ashlar sandstone raised with drystone rubble walling. The right-hand end of the wall stands approximately 2.5 meters high and includes a chamfered plinth and a cyma-moulded coping. The rubble portion has a decoratively moulded coping. The left-hand end of the wall is about 0.8 meters high. At the center, there is a pair of tall gatepiers, which have a moulded plinth on a tall stone base and bodies made of Flemish bond brick framed in stone, with beading on the edges. The gatepiers are topped with a heavily moulded cornice and ball finials. Inside, there are stone jambs with consoles above, and between them is a low blocking wall made of stone-coped brick from an earlier period. The stone wall extends to form a revetment wall for the west terrace in front of the house, which features a stone-coped brick wall with a narrow gateway.