Garden Gate To Road, Old Rectory, Opposite Drive To Church, And Adjoining Walls

HIGHNAM HIGHNAM VILLAGE SO 7819-7919 9/48 Garden gate to road, Old Rectory, opposite drive to church, and adjoining walls GV II Garden gate and adjoining wall. 1851-2 by H. Woodyer for T. Gambier-Parry. Squared, coursed lias wall, ashlar copings and dressings to gate; tiled roof. Gate with corbelled roof over, steps behind, wall along road each side. Boarded door to road, wrought-iron hinges, moulded stone arch over, plain jambs battered at foot. Either side long stone corbels, shaped, with marked projection, carrying wallplate; short, centre corbel over door: tiled roof above, stone projecting through in centre over door. Coping to wall slopes down each side of gate; on left continues level for about 26m from gate; on right about 25m with 4 sloping steps to coping. Internally short space, then stone steps up to left between retaining walls, winders at bottom. Built with Rectory as pedestrian route to church: forms group with that, school and Church Lodge, (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO7971219690