Boundary Walls And Gates To Number 1 Garden Cottage

TL 87 SE 2/8 14.7.55

AMPTON THE STREET Boundary Walls and Gates to No.1. Garden Cottage. (Formerly listed with Home Farmhouse as boundary wall and entrance gateway)

GV II

Garden Wall, gateway and gate. C18. Part kidney flints, part black knapped flints, freestone and white brick. Heavily rusticated stone archway with semi- circular head, Roman Doric pilasters and pediment, and frieze inscribed 'ET VOLUPTATI PLURIMUM ET SALUTI'. This led to the kitchen gardens of the Hall. (cf. 'Excursions through the County of Suffolk, 1819. p.90). Wrought iron ornamental gate with semi-circular head similar to and opposite, an old door in the garden wall of Ampton Hall. To each side of the archway, a short stretch of high wall in kidney flints flanked by 2 rusticated white brick piers surmounted by large stone ball finials. On the north side, a further short stretch of wall in black knapped random flint, terminating in a 3rd matching brick pier and finial.

Listing NGR: TL8666371236