Gate Piers And Wall At Entrance To Brunel Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. A Victorian Gate piers, wall.
Gate Piers And Wall At Entrance To Brunel Manor
- WRENN ID
- standing-trefoil-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- Gate piers, wall
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TORQUAY
SX9167 TEIGNMOUTH ROAD, Watcombe 885-1/5/459 (West side) Gate piers and wall at entrance to Brunel Manor
GV II
Gate piers and wall at entrance to Brunel Manor. c1870, contemporary with Brunel Manor (qv). Gardens laid out by Nesfield (Pevsner). Local grey crazed limestone with ashlar dressings. PLAN: Gate piers flanking carriage gateway; plainer pier to form pedestrian gateway to right; convex curving walls to carriage turn. Substantial square-section gate piers with battered plinths, chamfered moulded corners and caps with 4 cusped gables crowned with the bases of lampholders. The pedestrian gate pier is lower, with a plainer pyramidal cap. Convex curving walls of crazed masonry to either side have chamfered ashlar caps and plinths and terminate in low piers with caps. Included for group value with Brunel Manor.
Listing NGR: SX9199267902
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