Screen Wall To Entrance Front Of Somerleyton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1987. Screen wall, entrance gates.

Screen Wall To Entrance Front Of Somerleyton Hall

WRENN ID
quiet-joist-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Country
England
Date first listed
29 January 1987
Type
Screen wall, entrance gates
Source
Historic England listing

Description

TM 49 NE 4/52

SOMERLEYTON SOMERLEYTON PARK Screen wall to entrance front of Somerleyton Hall

GV II

Screen wall and entrance gates to Somerleyton Hall. Circa 1846 by John Thomas for Sir Morton Peto. Mostly of stone with some red brick. Walling c.l.3m high, the upper part pierced; the centre section is curved forward to the gateway. Square wall piers, those at each end of the curved sections surmounted by urns. The central gateway has heavy rusticated piers; each pier is pierced by an arched pedestrian side entrance with a wrought iron gate. The piers are surmounted by couchant stags which face each other across the entrance: these were renewed in 1975. Wrought iron main gates. At each end of the wall are square piers crowned by bronze lamps supported by 4 winged lions; these piers link with the stable court (q.v.) and Hall (q.v.). The surrounding park and gardens are included in the HBMC County Register of Gardens at Grade II*.

Listing NGR: TM4932097795

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