Gateway To The Green

TQ 04NW WONERSH C.P. THE STREET (South Side)

1/404 Gateway to The Green 9/3/60 (Formerly The Green Gateway).

GV II

Gateway. C18, originally to Wonersh Park, a C17 and C18 mansion, demolished in 1935. Brown and blue brick with roof obscured. Block rusticated and rebated angles, stone coped and battlemented parapet. Two step chamfered arched carriageway to centre with stone hood mould over continued as a stringcourse to the left. Stone string course above. Stone coped flanking walls canted to right and approximately 8 feet high adjacent to the gate, dropping to three feet at ends. Plank door under blue brick arch to left. Main carriageway cobbled. Inside the archway is a sculpted artificial stone frieze designed by Beatrice E. Cook and sculpted by John Harran, both of Wonersh, in 1952-3, when the Green was given to the Village, and commemorates the part played by the Civilians of Wonersh during the 1939-45 war.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) pp.536-7.

Listing NGR: TQ0150945158