Gate Piers,Garden Gate And Frontage Wall At Nine Ashes Farm 45 Metres West Of House

TL 4113 HUNSDON ACORN STREET (east side)

8/7 Gate Piers, Garden Gate and Frontage - Wall at Nine Ashes Farm 45 metres W of house

GV II

Gate piers, garden gate and frontage wall. C18 gate piers and later C19 wrought iron gate set in late C16 frontage wall. 2 early C18 tall square brick piers flanking the farm entrance with stone caps and large balls. To right of righthand pier a later C19 wrought iron gate into the garden having running scroll design in flanking standards and scrollwork overthrow. Late C16 red brick wall with 2 offsets and upper part rebuilt. English bond brickwork with diaper of black headers. At S end sweeps up to join former walled garden occupied by Orchard House. a group of frontage structures of special interest in the history of Nine Ashes. Essential to the group at the farm and part of a roadside group with the C16 walled enclosure to Orchard House.

Listing NGR: TL4165813184