Gate piers and flanking walls north of 18 Market Place

Gate piers and flanking wall, built in the mid- to late C18, walls rebuilt in the late C20.

MATERIALS: red brick piers and walls, with Coade stone finials to gate piers.

DESCRIPTION: the two square-plan gate piers are constructed of red brick, each surmounted by a carved Coade stone finial on a plain stone base, the bulbous urns having vine-trail decoration. The flanking walls are constructed of red brick laid in English bond with shallow stone coping and were reconstructed in the late C20. The rear (south-west) elevation of the north pier retains C18 brickwork. The flanking walls are attached to the north block of Swaffham Sixth Form Centre to the south-east (Grade II) and the brick screen wall and garden entrance of Oakleigh House to the north-west (Grade II*).