Estate Walls and Gate Piers, Ingleby Manor

Estate walls and gate piers, late C16 to early C17 with later alterations.

MATERIALS: coursed tooled limestone blocks with ashlar gate piers and saddleback copings, together with a stone-cobbled pavement and a wrought-iron gate.

PLAN: linear boundary walls aligned roughly north-east to south-west, with a re-entrant set back to accommodate the north-west carriage gateway to Ingleby Manor. Also, a pedestrian gateway to the Church of St Andrew set between the central and southern lengths of the wall.

DESCRIPTION: the estate wall is situated on the north-west boundary of the parkland of Ingleby Manor, roughly parallel and set back from Church Lane by a grass verge. The wall can be divided up into northern, central and southern lengths. The northern wall is approximately 31.5m in length and runs parallel to Church Lane before deflecting to the south for the last 15m, alongside the carriage road to Ingleby Manor where a short one and a half metre length turns 90 degrees to butt up against the east gate pier. The carriage gateway is flanked by a pair of channelled rusticated ashlar gate piers raised on narrow plinths, which have projecting stone gateposts, alternate projecting courses, moulded cornices and pyramidal finials. The central wall has a similar one and a half metre length that butts up against the west gate pier before it curves and deflects to the south-west and runs for approximately 24m before terminating against a pedestrian gateway. The pedestrian gateway, which is flanked by projecting ashlar gate piers with saddleback coping stones, has a decorative welded 1960s wrought-iron pedestrian gate that has scroll decoration with leaf terminals and an overthrow, terminating in a twisted-leaf spear finial. A cobbled path leads from the gateway across Church Lane to the base of a flight of steps leading to a former private gateway through the churchyard wall of the Church of St Andrew. The southern length of wall is approximately 28m long and continues a parallel alignment with Church Lane before deflecting slightly south-by-south-west to the stone-lined bank of Ingleby Beck where it terminates in a stepped wall pier with a C20 teddy bear finial and three projecting keystones.