Wall And Gates To Entrance Courtyard, Stanway House

STANWAY STANWAY VILLAGE SP 0632-0732 13/124 Wall and gates to entrance courtyard, Stanway House GV I Wall and gates. Probably c1630. Ashlar stone. 'L' plan wall, round 2 sides courtyard, from gatehouse (q.v.) to house (q.v.); gateway in centre of each side. Wall about 2.75m high, with ridged stone coping in 2 courses, roll ridge: wall steps up each side of gateways, coping returned up vertical face of step. Gateway opposite door to house: double doors up 2 stone steps, doors with applied ribs, fluted fan top, semi-circular head. Projecting, rusticated quoins each side, voussoirs stepped on outer face, large keystone. Moulded string course and cornice to raised wall over: broken scrolled pediment framing rusticated pier, moulded top, shell finial: shell finials at foot of pediment. Gateway opposite gatehouse: wide archway, 4-centred arch; rusticated piers each side, plain impost blocks, rusticated spandrels, large keystone. Scrolled, broken pediment framing centre block with semi-circular recess, plain impost block running round back of niche, moulded surround to semi-circular head. Moulded top, shell finial over, and to feet of pediment. Either side archway similar niches to that in pediment, but larger. Apparently built with gatehouse: may be by Timothy Strong. One gate leads to churchyard. (Sir R. Atkyns, The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire, 1712; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Cotswolds, 1970.

Listing NGR: SP0610232398