Wall, Gate Piers And Railings To West Of Middleton Hall

The wall, gate piers, and railings to the west of Middleton Hall date from the 18th century. The structure features iron railings on a dwarf wall, with the main wall constructed of red brick. The iron railings are 32 meters long, attached to a wall that is 59 meters long and 2.1 meters high, which includes a southern gateway. The railings sit on a cement-rendered dwarf wall topped with Portland stone coping, and there is a 20th-century cement fillet around the base of the railings. The supporting sections have wrought-iron 's' shaped scroll work and twisted flat finials, while the intermediate railings have square-sectioned spear points.

The wall itself is made of red brick in Flemish bond with a shaped brick coping. It includes two intermediate simple brick piers with Portland stone copings and pilaster buttresses. The inner side of the wall is flush along its length. The gateway features two outer piers spaced 12.8 meters apart and two inner piers spaced 6.4 meters apart, connected by quadrant walls; however, the gates and iron supports are missing. The piers are square in section, made of finely bedded gauged brickwork with rustication from projecting Portland stone blocks, four on each pier. The outer piers have deep stone caps with shallow pyramidal tops and a frieze of upper and lower ovolo mouldings, featuring prominent triglyphs and guttae on each face, with the mouldings breaking forward around the triglyphs. The rear piers are similar to the front but lack stone caps, which have been replaced by plain 20th-century brickwork. The quadrant walls have been rebuilt and have simple brick coping. The wall continues south of the gateway but is not included in this listing as it was rebuilt in the 20th century. The wall and railings, along with the garden wall to the east, form a group with Middleton Hall.