Garden Wall, Gate Piers And Gate

TL 4680 WITCHAM HIGH STREET (North side)

13/52 Garden wall, gate piers and gate. 5.2.52 (formerly listed under The Hall including Barn, gates, and gatepiers)

GV II

Garden wall, gatepiers and gates. Early C18. Wall and piers are of C18 gault and red brick, mainly Flemish bond on the front but English in the wall to the yard. Red brick gate piers on gault brick base. Fine mortar joints to the piers and moulded stone cornice, now painted black and surmounted by stone urns with masks, swag enrichments and flame bursts from gadroon capping. Original wrought iron gate with side standards. Overthrow made up of two bifurcated scrolls meeting at a trident and decorated with nibs. Square section stiles, verticals and top and lockrail, the latter having a panel of S scrolls. The bottom rail carries a dograil of arrowheads. The flanking wall is of gault brick with a low stone gable coping. At the ends are piers, also of gault brick but with red brick quoins and similar coping. The side wall returning to the house is of alternating red and gault brick courses, English bond.

Listing NGR: TL4644680024