Walls, Gate Piers And Gates To The Walled Park To Dulford House

BROADHEMBURY DULFORD ST 00 NE

2/69 Walls, gate-piers and gates to the - walled Park to Dulford House

GV II

Walls, gate-piers and gates, formerly to the walled park surround Dulford House, which was demolished in the 1930s. Late C18. Flemish bond handmade brick walls, timber gates. Dulford House was built between 1762-1800 by Charles Coote, the 7th Earl of Montrath. He was a recluse "with a morbid dread of infectious diseases" (Chalk) and surrounded the house with a massive walled park of tall brick walls, the bricks probably maufactured in Dulford. Most of the walls survive although new houses and conversions have been built within the park. The main gateway into the park is from the road running along the east side with a pair of massive gate-piers and timber gates. The walls have shallow brick buttresses and curve inwards on the east side of the gateway which is flanked by tall square section piers with tall pinnacles, one retaining an openwork iron ball finial, possibly late C19. A pair of very tall timber gates with a segmental arch at the top have good ornamental hinges. Chalk, Transaction of the Devonshire Association, 84 (1952), p. 344.

Listing NGR: ST0706207013