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

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SK 58 NW, 7/126

LAUGHTON-EN-LE-MORTHEN, SLADE HOOTON, Wall enclosing front garden to Slade Hooton Hall including attached gate piers and gateway

(Part of item formerly listed as Entrance gatepier, Slade Hooton Hall; Gateway between garden and orchard; Gatepiers between garden and farmyard)

(Parish previously listed as: Thurcroft)

29.03.68

G.V.

II

Garden wall with attached gate piers and gateway. c1700. For John Mirfin of Slade Hooton Hall. Ashlar limestone gate piers and gateway; coursed, squared limestone walling. Rectangular enclosure wall with entrance gatepiers to front right, gateway and gate piers in right return of wall, additional gate piers to rear wall on right of Slade Hooton Hall (q.v.). Front gate piers (that on right partly replaced in concrete) have moulded plinths, square rusticated shafts with inner-face strips, cornices with large ball finials; quoined flanking walls have brackets against each pier. Wall steps down on left then returns to full height on left return to link with rear-right corner of Slade Hooton Hall. Right return of front wall has moulded copings and a rusticated ashlar doorway with cambered-arched head; wall continues to a pair of gate piers with moulded plinths and square, panelled shafts with cornices and pulvinated plinths to broken finials; rear return of wall has larger gate piers in same style. Front gate piers and those to right of house depicted in Samuel Buck's sketch of Slade Hooton Hall (p82). Samuel Buck's Yorkshire Sketchbook, c1720, facsimile edition 1979, Wakefield Historical Society.

Listing NGR: SK5239189265