Gatepiers to the north-east of farm outbuilding at Barlow Woodseats Hall and section of wall attached to north-east pier

A pair of stone gate piers, probably late C16 in date, and a length of boundary wall at Barlow Woodseats Hall defining the entrance to the north-west end of the farmyard, bounded to the south-west by the farm outbuilding range and to the north-east by Barlow Woodseats Hall and its gardens.

MATERIALS: the gatepiers are formed from ashlar sandstone blocks and other elements of moulded stonework, and are linked to adjacent structures by coursed rubble sandstone walling.

EXTERIOR: the piers are rectangular on plan. Their inner faces each have a projecting vertical moulding which forms a stop against which the doors, which have been removed, could be closed. At the head of each pier is a blocking course and a projecting moulded cornice which supports a ball finial set upon a tapered stem. The rectangular blocks also act as quoins, the recesses between which house the end sections of the masonry courses of the attached walling. The south-west pier is linked to the adjacent building by a short stub of walling, but the north-east pier stands at the end of an approximately nine metre section of wall which extends eastward to Barlow Woodseats Hall (q.v.). The wall adjoins the pier just below the cornice but then is ramped downwards to a quoined set-back, and continues at the lower height until it meets the hall. The wall has a stepped ridge coping and incorporates a quoined door opening giving access to the hall gardens.