Walls And Gates To 3 Sides Garden With 2 Urns, About 75M West Of Highnam Court

HIGHNAM SO 7819-7919 9/35 Walls and gates to 3 sides garden with 2 urns, about 75m west of Highnam Court GV II Walls and gates to garden. Mid C19 for T. Gambier-Parry. English garden wall bond brickwork, probably terracotta semi-circular tiles, ashlar stone, render. Wall to 3 sides of garden. South face, viewed from outside garden: central gateway in wall about 2.5m high; finely jointed brickwork to piers each side, off ashlar plinth: semi-circular rubbed brick arch with stone keystone, scrolled broken pediment over. Single gate, dog bars, double middle rail, sagging top rail, spear tops to bars. About 6m in front 2 terracotta urns, decorative modelling, handles, on square stone bases. Wall each side brick plinth, moulded stone coping, divided into 4 bays by square stone piers, vermiculated ashlar with recessed joints, moulded stone caps with gadrooned urns. At right corner wall projects forward about 2m to further pier: left corner hidden behind grotto (q.v.). Wall returns back on left, to gateway on line of straight walk from house: jamb of gateway aligned on walls, so not at right angles to face of wall. Gateway flanked squared, rendered piers, recessed joints, tops as south wall piers. Between piers finely jointed brickwork, semi-circular rubbed-brick arch, projecting keystone and plain impost blocks: above 'Dutch' gable, stone copings. Double gate, as south, but top rail straight, angling down, with scrolled ends. Wall continues to north. Right return swept down to low wall after rendered pier: low wall brick base, 3 courses semi-circular tiles, moulded stone capping. Centre of length brick instead of tiles. Sweeps up to rendered pier, recessed joints, urn on top, for double iron gateway: pier and low wall repeated beyond, running about a further 20m, where sweeps up to rendered pier. Brick walls may be reused from earlier walled garden. Forms group with Highnam Court and grottoes (q.v.). (Autumn, 1985, Newsletter of The Georgian Group in Gloucester and Avon)

Listing NGR: SO7925019302