Garden Walls With Gazebo And Gateways To Dogmersfield Park

SU 75 SE DOGMERSFIELD DOGMERSFIELD PARK

9/60 Garden walls with Gazebo and gateways to Dogmers- 8.7.52 field Park

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C18, early C19. A high-walled garden laid out on symmetrical lines, but with the central portion incomplete. The northern boundary is a high red brick wall (English bond, with stepped plinths) with an early C19 gazebo inserted, so that it faces an open axis to the whole scheme. The west side of the northern unit has a central gateway, with ornamental gateposts enclosing wrought iron gates and low side walls surmounted by rails ending in piers: the eastern side has a small central gateway, with plain piers at the end of dipping walls. At some distance the high cross wall to the south has a central opening, the walls curving down at the angles to simple piers; beyond two walls extend southwards at equal distances from the axis. An isolated pier survives to the east of the middle section, crowned by an urn. The gazebo is the chief feature, and has a fine ashlar facade of 2 oval arches resting on a central Tuscan column and 2 half-columns on each side; above the arches a gable, with a small square pinnacle at each end, is broken with a dropping curves to a central larger square pinnacle: the rectangular space has seating on three sides, a panelled ceiling, and on its exterior (north) side projects beyond the main wall in Flemish bond brickwork.

Listing NGR: SU7713851571