Entrance Gates To Hillfield Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1998. Entrance gates.
Entrance Gates To Hillfield Gardens
- WRENN ID
- distant-bastion-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gloucester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1998
- Type
- Entrance gates
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
GLOUCESTER
SO8418NW LONDON ROAD 844-1/10/186 (North side) Entrance Gates to Hillfield Gardens
GV II
Entrance gates to public gardens, formerly the gates to the grounds of Hillfield House, Denmark Road (qv). c1867. By Albert Estcourt for Charles Walker. Ashlar piers and balustrade, wrought-iron gates. Carriage gateway and pedestrian gateway to right set back between short quadrant balustrades. EXTERIOR: massive ashlar gate piers and similar piers at the outer corners of the flanking quadrant balustrades set on a vermiculated base; piers have moulded plinths, a recessed panel in each face, moulded cornices and capstones with semicircular lunettes on each face; balustrades with turned balusters and moulded copings linking with the cornices of the piers. Wrought-iron gates have a lower zone with an elaborate pattern in circles and an upper zone with finials on the intermediate rail and below the top rail between the standards. A short length of solid balustrade links the outer right hand pier with the Gate Lodge No.101 (qv).
Listing NGR: SO8427618969
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