Gates And Gate Piers And Walls To The South Of Wootton Hall With Wootton Bridge

WOOTTON WAWEN

SP16SE STRATFORD ROAD 1457-1/5/179 (North side) 05/04/67 Gates, gate piers and walls to south of Wootton Hall, with Wootton Bridge (Formerly Listed as: WOOTTON WAWEN Main gateway at Wootton Hall)

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Gates, gate piers, adjoining low parapet wall to west for approx. 6m and to east along Stratford Road for approx. 125m, and then forming balustrade to Wootton Bridge for approx. 24m, and bridge. Gates c1906, otherwise c1690 with insertion of milestone on bridge in 1806; restorations to balustrade including those of c1906 for Capewell Hughes and late C20. Cast-iron gates, otherwise lias stone ashlar piers and balustrade with replacement cement balusters and reddish-brown brick bridge. Double gates incorporating piers surmounted by lamps and pedestrian gates have bars embellished with panels of scrollwork, and scrolled cresting. Main gate piers have rusticated shafts and entablature, that to left surmounted by ball finial. Balustrade curves towards piers and has moulded plinth surmounted by bulbous balusters and shaped copings, interrupted at intervals by piers with moulded base and cornice. The balustrade continues to bridge incorporating, to north side, a milestone inscribed To / London / 100 Miles / Stratford on Avon 6 / Henley in Arden 2 / Birmingham 8 / 1806'; and to south side a pier inscribedThe / Stone Parapet / of this Bridge / was erected by / G H Capewell Hughes Esq JP / Wootton Hall / 1906'. Bridge has 3 round arches with ashlar keystones and cutwaters. The piers and balustrade are shown on a watercolour for Capewell Hughes showing the park in the mid-C18. All the listed items on the Wootton Hall Estate (Wootton Park) form a group.

Listing NGR: SP1546963169