Gatepier (West) Approximately 330 Metres South Of Fairgreen Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1989. Gatepier.

Gatepier (West) Approximately 330 Metres South Of Fairgreen Farmhouse

WRENN ID: white-hinge-hemlock
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: West Oxfordshire
Country: England
Date first listed: 15 May 1989
Type: Gatepier
Source: Historic England listing

Description

LYNEHAM SP22SE 7/165 Gatepier (west) approx. 330m S of Fairgreen Farmhouse

GV II

Gatepier. Late C17 or early C18. Limestone ashlar. Square section with moulded plinth and boldly projecting capping surmounted by swagged urn finial; scrolled pilaster with moulded capital on east and west faces. Looks very similar to the gatepiers to the north of Sarsden House (q.v.) shown in an engraving in Kennett's Parochial Antiquities (1695). One of a pair of gatepiers at south end of drive to east of Sarsden House, abandoned before 1788. (Nigel Temple: 'Sarsden, Oxfordshire'; Journal of Garden History: Vol.6, No.2 (1986), pp.89-111 (esp.p.91)) [2615]

Listing NGR: SP2939021947

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