Wall, Gate Piers And Railings To West Of Middleton Hall

BRENTWOOD

TQ69SW MIDDLETON HALL LANE 723-1/9/92 (East side) Wall, gate piers and railings to west of Middleton Hall

GV II

Railings, wall and gate piers to Middleton Hall (qv). C18. Iron railings on dwarf wall; main wall of red brick. Iron railings: 32m long abutting wall to S 59m long and 2.1m high with S gateway. Railings on cement rendered dwarf wall with Portland stone coping, C20 cement fillet additionally set round base of railings. Supporting sections with rear stays have wrought-iron `s' shaped scroll work and twisted flat finials, intermediate railings have square sectioned spear points. Wall: of red brick, Flemish bond with shaped brick coping. 2 intermediate simple brick piers with Portland stone copings, also pilaster buttresses. Inner side of wall flush along length. Gateway: has 2 outer piers 12.8m apart and 2 inner piers 6.4m apart, linked by quadrant walls, gates and iron supports absent. Piers square section of gauged brickwork, finely bedded with rustication by projecting Portland stone blocks, 4 to each pier. Outer piers have deep stone caps with shallow pyramidal tops and a surrounding frieze of upper and lower ovolo mouldings with prominent triglyphs and guttae central on each face, mouldings breaking forward round triglyph. Rear piers similar to those at front but stone caps missing and replaced by plain C20 brickwork. Quadrant walls have been rebuilt and have simple brick coping. Wall continues S of gateway but is not included in this listing as rebuilt in C20. The wall and railings and garden wall east (qv) form a group with Middleton Hall (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ6007894070