Garden Walls With Piers And Attached Barn About 25 Metres South Of Wick Manor

ST 67 SE WICK AND ABSON C.P. THE GREEN

7/393 Garden walls with piers and attached barn about 25 metres south of Wick G.V. Manor

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Garden walls with piers, attached barn. Late C18 walls, barn of late C17/early C18 origin, altered late C18/early C19 to give appearance of ruined chapel, with C20 alterations for use as office. Walls in coursed limestone freestone with stone dressings and piers; barn in coursed freestone with stone dressings, mixed pennant and limestone rubble with slag block long and short quoins to south west, pantiled roof with stepped stonework under verges, double Roman tiled rear lean-to. Walls enclose a rectangular garden, about 30 metres east to west and about 50 metres north to south; barn attached at north west. In southern range, wall ramps down to left and right to square pier about 2 metres high with cornice and urn; 2 piers connected by low ha-ha wall about ½ metre high and about 15 metres long. East and west ranges of wall about 3 metres high, in west range a door with ogee head and rusticated jambs, niche above; east range continued as north range, ramped down to similar pier with C20 urn. At north west, wall attached to south elevation of barn; gable end to left with raised coped verges, gable ended curtain wall to right; central similar ogee-headed door with large niche above with moulded surround, to left and right a 3-light pointed arched window with Perpendicular tracery, to left with C20 stained glass, to right with 2 outer lights blocked in ashlar, small single light at ground floor left, small niche at apex and cross finial to right. Right return has courses of freestone and timber wall-plate remaining; left return has door to left in chamfered stone surround, 2-light C20 casement above in C19 opening with segmental head, C20 3-light casement to ground floor right, 12-pane light above.

Listing NGR: ST6940072292