Jarvis Brook, North West Gateway To Rotherfield Hall And Attached Flanking Walls

ROTHERFIELD TREBLERS ROAD TQ 52 NW Jarvis Brook, Crowborough 20/257B North-west gateway to Rotherfield Hall

The entry shall be amended to read:-

TQ 52 NW ROTHERFIELD TREBLERS ROAD (east side) 20/2578 Jarvis Brook, North-west gateway to Rotherfield Hall and attached flanking walls

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Gateway and attached flanking walls. 1897 by Francis Inigo Thomas for Sir Lindsay Lindsay-Hogg. Rubblestone and ashlar; iron gates. Central carriage entrance, the flanking walls sweeping down over side pedestrian entrances. Central entrance has: giant rusticated piers, square on plan, with cornices and pyramidal finials (that on southern pier badly weathered); double gates with cusped arcaded panels, petalled spike finials, leaf and scroll decoration to lower part, bud and flower decoration above, the central finials particularly elaborate. Flanking walls are of rubblestone brought to course with rubblestone coping; pedestrian entrances are round-arched with decorative gates in same style as main gates; walls curve round and continue at lower level, on south side for approximately 14 metres, on north side for approximately 43 metres, this wall having a gateway with square piers with rusticated capstones and part of the wall collapsed. Inigo Thomas was responsible both for the enlargement of Rotherfield Hall (qv) and for the design of its garden which is listed Grade II* in The Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Interest.

ROTHERFIELD TREBLERS ROAD 1. 5208 Jarvis Brook Crowborough North-west Gateway to Rotherfield Hall TQ 52 NW 20/257B II 2. 1897. Large rusticated stone gate piers with pyramidical caps.

Listing NGR: TQ5394029235