Pair Of Gate Piers 204 Metres East Of Entrance To Home Farm is a Grade I listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. A Early C18 Gate piers.
Pair Of Gate Piers 204 Metres East Of Entrance To Home Farm
- WRENN ID
- graven-garret-pigeon
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Gate piers
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SU 46 NW HAMSTEAD MARSHALL PARK LANE (East Side)
15/9 Pair of Gate piers 204 metres East of Entrance to Home Farm
I
Gate piers. Early C18. Brick with stone dressings. Pair of tall square piers with stone plinth bases and moulded stone plinth caps. Stone corniced caps surmounted by stone vases with carved swags, flowers and fruit. east and west faces have arched niches above plinths with stone strings at impost level, stone keys and stone shells in arches, moulded stone panels above niches. north and south faces have brick pilasters for gate hanging, walls or railings, capped by stone moulded cornices and scrolls. Northern pier now attached to low wall of no special interest. Gate piers to the former Manor House built for the Earl of Craven by Sir Balthazar Gerbier and William Wynne, and burnt down in 1718. B.O.E. Berkshire p.152, Murray's Berkshire Architectural Guide p.127.
Listing NGR: SU4191866685
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