Garden Walls And Gate Piers Attached To Right And Rear Left Of Bank House

ST COLUMB MAJOR NORTH STREET, St Columb Major SW 9063-9163 17/251 Garden walls and gate piers - attached to right and rear left of Bank House GV II*

Garden walls attached to right and left of Bank House. 1857, by William White. Stone rubble with granite and slate dressings. The wall attached to rear left of Bank House is in 4 stepped ranges, about 2½ metres high, with a gateway at each end. The middle three ranges are battered, with rubble coping and granite quoins to the batter. The first range to right has 2-centred arched doorway, plank door with strap hinges, convex mouldings with hood mould and banded relieving arch. Pitched slate roof over the wall with crested ridge tiles and pinnacle to left with finial. To end left is a double gateway with tall pier with pyramidal cap to right, narrow Gothic coping to the wall end to left. Wooden gate. The wall is continued to enclose a roughly rectangular garden at the rear of Bank House. Attached to the front right of the house is a low wall with hollow-moulded granite coping and slender piers with finials to each side of a single gateway with later C19 wrought iron gate. Wooden palings on the wall in place of former railings. Similar terminal pier to right. The walls are an integral part of the design of the house.

Listing NGR: SW9140563614