Wall Enclosing Front Garden To Slade Hooton Hall Including Attached Gatepiers And Gateway

The garden wall enclosing the front garden of Slade Hooton Hall, including attached gate piers and a gateway, dates from around 1700 and was built for John Mirfin of Slade Hooton Hall. It features ashlar limestone gate piers and a gateway, along with coursed, squared limestone walling. The wall forms a rectangular enclosure with entrance gate piers located at the front right, a gateway and gate piers at the right return, and additional gate piers on the rear wall to the right of Slade Hooton Hall.

The front gate piers, one of which has been partly replaced in concrete, have moulded plinths, square rusticated shafts with inner-face strips, and cornices topped with large ball finials. The quoined flanking walls have brackets against each pier. The wall steps down on the left and then returns to full height on the left return, connecting with the rear-right corner of Slade Hooton Hall. The right return of the front wall features moulded copings and a rusticated ashlar doorway with a cambered-arched head. The wall continues to a pair of gate piers that have moulded plinths and square, panelled shafts with cornices and pulvinated plinths leading to broken finials. The rear return of the wall has larger gate piers in the same style. The front gate piers and those to the right of the house are illustrated in Samuel Buck's sketch of Slade Hooton Hall from around 1720.