Gate Piers, Gates, Flanking Wall And Bollards To Number 89

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SE23NE WEETWOOD LANE, Weetwood 714-1/6/1223 (West side) Gate piers, gates, flanking wall, and bollards to No.89

GV II

Gate piers, gates, flanking walls and bollards. Dated 1902. For Joseph Pickering. Wrought-iron gates, walling of ashlar and coursed gritstone, stone bollards, chains missing. Gates: 2 leaves, bars and dog bars, elaborate wrought-iron scrolled panel to centre of each gate, scrolled frames and crest with date. Gate piers: rusticated ashlar, plinth, squat bulbous corner shafts, entablature and deep moulded cornice similar to that on the adjacent lodge, No.89, bay window (qv); flat capstones with remains of wrought-iron lamp supports. Walling: to north a low ashlar wall with moulded coping, approx 10m long, curved to meet rusticated pier; to south the wall is approx 2.5m high and 10m long, of coursed gritstone and probably the remains of the earlier estate boundary, with roll-moulded coping ramped down at left end; a gateway with plain ashlar surround and board door with decorative cast-iron panel above in this stretch. Bollards: approx 0.7m high, 6 to left and 4 to right of gates, conical with flattened ball finials. Built as the entrance gates to Brandon Hill, now St Urban's School. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SE2750737690