Garden Wall And Gateway Attached To And Enclosing A Garden To North Of Stutton Hall

TM 13 SW STUTTON STUTTON PARK

4/95 Garden wall and gateway attached to and enclosing a garden to north of Stutton Hall, qv 4/94

GV II*

Garden wall and gateway attached to north east and north west of Stutton Hall enclosing a garden to north of the hall with a gateway in the northern face. C16. Red brick. The wall is crenellated and pinnacled. 3 pinnacles each to east and west faces, 4 to north face. The pinnacles with Tudor mouldings, moulded capitals, bases and domes with crockets, all rising from pilasters. Plinth. In the west wall is a-heavy nailed vertically boarded gate with 2 rails and 5 muntins to west face. There is a smaller nailed 5-board gate to south east corner. The north wall brick gateway faces north and south with return walls between, red plain tiled roof. North face, crow-stepped gable, pinnacled angled buttresses, plinths and band following through over moulded 4-centred archway. Sunk panel to gable. Moulded imposts to arch. South face, semi-circular pediment with moulded finial, the angle buttresses with moulded plinths and capitals and each with double fluted pilasters. Moulded band below pediment carries through to buttress returns. Semi-circular archway, moulded imposts. Square stone sundial with gnomon to pediment. Interior: Brick floor, plastered walls and ceiling. Side seat alcoves with mouldings above seats. 4-centre arched double gates the lower half vertically boarded, upper half slatted with top rail. There are 3 stone garden urns within the garden. N Pevsner, 'Suffolk', 1961. E Sandon, 'Suffolk Houses', 1984.

Listing NGR: TM1403433746