Gatepiers And Walls To Burdock, Builders' Yard

PAINSWICK NEW STREET SO 8609-8709 (Part) (south east side) 8/178 Gate Piers and walls to Burdock, builders' yard GV II Gate piers and boundary walls to street. Early C19. Limestone ashlar. Pair of rusticated piers about 650 mm square, to block capitals and cavetto mould finials, at about 3 m centres; from each a convex quadrant of ashlar wall to flat coping finished to pair of plain piers about 400 mm square with cappings as main piers, but at lower level. To left a run of ashlar walling with some concrete blockwork, about 2 m high to plain coping, connecting with similar boundary wall to Cotswold House (qv). One of the lower piers has also been reconstructed in concrete block, but the whole ensemble is of importance to the visual quality of the street.

Listing NGR: SO8671709794