Main Gateway And Gates To Condover Hall

19th century gateway to Condover Hall and walls to north and south.

MATERIALS: gateway of pink sandstone ashlar with iron gates. Walls of roughly coursed sandstone rubble.

PLAN: the gateway stands about 130m east of Condover Hall at the end of an axial driveway in line with the central porch. Walls extend 20m to the north and 200m to the south.

DESCRIPTION: an arched gateway with flanking walls and piers. Square panelled piers support a moulded Renaissance arch with a scrolled keystone, above which is a cornice with scroll consoles. A stepped gable has scroll mouldings and angle obelisks, as found on the Hall, and is topped by a small pediment. It has the Owen coat of arms, with a lion rampant, in the centre. Short flanking walls have brackets to the gateway, and terminate in a square pier on either side with stepped caps and lions, one with a double-headed eagle, the other a scroll. Gates, C19, are wrought iron with fleur-de-lys finials.

Rubble walls to the north and south, around 2.5m high and with dressed coping stones.