Walls And Piers Forming Boundary To Garden Of Cassey Compton House

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7/149 Walls and piers forming boundary to garden of Cassey 23.1.52 Compton House (formerly listed with Manor House)

GV II

Boundary walls and piers with urns. Mainly C17, wall in front of stableblock early/mid C18. Mostly limestone ashlar, some faced to coursed and dressed stone. Wall runs parallel to stableblock, then c80m to south at its west end and c80m to east, in front of house. Walls range in height from c1m - c4m. Wall north of canal ramped up and down in places. Walls west and south of canal vary in height according to changes in ground level. Piers on south (removed from original position), square with fielded panels on sides, moulded cappings and fine urn finials with gadrooning at base and delicate foliate carving incorporating roses, fruit and grotesque heads around top and forming finials. Saddleback coping to low wall between piers. Flat coping sloped outwards to other walls. (Atkyn's History of Gloucestershire, engraving of c1712 by Kip).

Listing NGR: SP0496114908