Gateway And Boundary Wall At Cook Street Entrance To Lady Herberts Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 2001. A C20 Gateway.

Gateway And Boundary Wall At Cook Street Entrance To Lady Herberts Garden

WRENN ID
open-column-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Coventry
Country
England
Date first listed
24 July 2001
Type
Gateway
Source
Historic England listing

Description

COVENTRY

SP3379SE

833/2/10120

Gateway and Boundary Wall at Cook Street entrance to Lady Herbert's Garden

24-JUL-01

II

Gateway and boundary wall to public garden. Designed 1930-1931 by Albert Herbert for his cousin Sir Alfred Herbert, in memory of Sir Alfred's wife, Florence Herbert. Ashlar and bronze. Pair of square gatepiers with plinths, chamfered corners and simply moulded caps. The original bronze gateposts remain, but the gates were replaced late C20. Wall has plinth and moulded coping, formerly with ornamental bronze railing.

The wall extended approx. 8m left of the gateway, and approx. 20m to the right, where it adjoins the C14 Cook Street Gateway, part of the city wall.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 January 2020.

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