Gateway In Wall Adjacent To Woodturners

This is an isolated gateway in a boundary wall, dating from the 16th or 17th century, but likely built in its current position in the early 19th century. It features a granite surround and a rubble wall. The opening has a granite surround with a roll mould, set flush to the wall face, and leads to a basket-handle head with a separate projecting keystone. Inside the opening is a 20th-century door styled in a 17th-century plank form, equipped with early hinges. The door is positioned lower than the adjacent road surface. The gateway is set in a stretch of rubble wall with saddle-back coping, approximately 2.25 meters above the road surface, but it is higher on the garden side, extending about 1.5 meters on either side of the opening to straight joints in the masonry. There are steps leading down within the gateway. This door provided access to Poundwell House and, like many fragments in Modbury, may have originated from the demolition of Champernowne House.