Screen Wall, And Attached Garden Feature And Wall Adjoining Gatehouse West Of Arbury Hall

NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH ARBURY PARK SP38NW 4/9 Screen wall, and attached garden feature and wall adjoining gatehouse W of Arbury Hall GV II

Screen wall, attached garden feature and wall. Screen wall is possibly C17 with late C18/early C19 alterations. Brick with some stone dressings. Rusticated alternating quoins to lower part. Stone-coped embattled parapet. Moulded cornice forms string course to raised end sections with more elaborate cornice and larger battlements. Interior not inspected. Garden feature is composed of 2 re-erected Elizabethan bay windows, probably from Arbury Hall, with an arched seat between. Sandstone. Large 5-light avolo-aoulded mullioned and transomed windows, now blocked, with 2 tiers of Tuscan pilasters to angles, moulded cornice and ornamented frieze. Dentil cornice and entablature, decorated frieze. and strongly moulded cornice. Seat has lower moulded Tudor arch with moulded spandrels, cornice and entablature, and wooden bench seat. Set back on right is a lower section of wall adjoining gatehouse. C17/C18. Front of brick, with return section of sandstone ashlar. Front has blocked segmental-arched doorway, with another inserted below and to left. 3 small shaped openings above. Top has vents. Jacobean openwork stone balustrade on top, re-used from elsewhere in the garden. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p71)

Listing NGR: SP3347189242