Entrance Screen At Empacombe

SX 45 SW MAKER-WITH-RAME EMPACOMBE

6/111 Entrance screen at Empacombe (formerly listed as The Great 23.1.68 Gatehouse entrance to the walled gardens of Mount Edgcumbe Park)

GV II

Entrance screen to kitchen garden of great house. Early C19 but apparently using reset C16 or C17 features. Random slate and sandstone rubble with limestone, brick and granite dressings. Screen wall of a sham fortification character. Entrance flanked by towers flanked by broad buttressed walls. The cart doors are square- headed with a hollow moulded granite surround. Above are 3 pointed arched blind recessed panels. The towers are divided into 4 storeys by limestone bands, the second and third storeys have the same recessed panels, the top storey has square sunk panels. The flanking wall to the left has a foot arch with roll-moulded surround. The wall top has a feature of blind recessed panels to give the impression of battlements. The whole forms an impressive entrance feature to what was the kitchen and fruit gardens of Mount Edgcumbe.

Listing NGR: SX4455252889