Walls And Gate Piers And Gates To Pilton Cottage

BARNSTAPLE

SS5534SE DARK LANE, Pilton 684-1/2/334 (South West side) 31/12/73 Walls, gate piers and gates to Pilton Cottage (Formerly Listed as: DARK LANE, Pilton Iron entrance gates and attached gate-piers and walls at Pilton Cottage)

GV II

Garden walls, gates and gate piers. Gates dated 1805 and 1824, walls and gate piers probably also early C19. Gates, said to commemorate a young soldier, refurbished in last 10 years. Roughcast walls, coped with pantiles and ridge-tiles; plastered gate piers; cast- and wrought-iron gates. Walls ramp down to gate piers, which are square section with moulded strings below tiered caps. Pair of exceptional C18-style gates with overthrow. Each gate has a date in a panel below the middle, with the main verticals ornamented with arrows, roundels and, below the top rail, pendant twists. Left and right panels have elaborate, lobed, mushroom-shaped finial. Above the top rail scrollwork flanks a double-headed eagle and below it, wrought-iron initials said to be DR. Pretty overthrow incorporates applied flowers in the scrollwork. Wall encloses garden of Pilton Cottage (qv) at its entrance in Dark Lane; unusually grand and finely-made pair of entrance gates. An exceptional example of ornamental ironwork.

Listing NGR: SS5555734162