Terrace Retaining Wall Gate Piers Gates And Steps Approximately 7 Metres South East Of Ford House

SJ 4013-4113 FORD C.P. FORD

13/65 Terrace, retaining wall, - gate piers, gates and steps approx. 7 metres to south-east of Ford House

GV II

Terrace retaining wall, gate piers, gates and steps. Early C18. Red brick with red sandstone coping. T-plan; approximately 51 metres long and 2 metres high, returning at north-east end. Flight of eleven grey sandstone steps on axis of south-east door of house with Cl9 cast iron balustrade; pair of square brick piers in line with end walls of house with stone caps, each consisting of moulded cornice and large globe finial; pair of barrel-vaulted brick chambers beneath terrace flanking steps, both with stone hingeblocks (no doors at time of survey-July 1985), that to north-east with segmental-headed entrance and arched recess in rear wall; wall returning to south-east at north-east end, ramped down to gateway with wrought-iron gate and square brick pier with chamfered coping; returning to north-west with flight of 10 brick steps up to pair of wrought-iron gates and square brick piers, each with stone caps consisting of moulded cornices and large globe finials. V.C.H., Vo1. VIII, pp.225-6. -

Listing NGR: SJ4128813880