Low Walls, Gate Piers, Gates And Railings To Front Of Beech House, Beech Cottage And Sheriff House

The low walls, gate piers, gates, and railings in front of Beech House, Beech Cottage, and Sheriff House are notable features in Temple Sowerby. Beech House features low ashlar walls with chamfered copings and slender, rusticated gate piers at the south end, which have corniced square capitals topped with domical forms. The railings and double gate are made of late 18th-century wrought iron with spearhead standards. Beech Cottage has a wall made of inserted, coursed, squared rubble with flat copings, and monolithic slab gate piers that have curved tops. The mid-19th-century cast-iron railings display openwork fleurs-de-lis standards, while the wrought-iron gate features scrollwork panels and an overthrow with iron-twist standards. Sheriff House also has low ashlar walls with chamfered copings and a moulded plinth. It has rusticated piers at each end and on either side of the central gate, which have moulded bases with fluting and dentils on their square, corniced capitals. The large urns that top the gate piers are complemented by smaller urns on the two end piers. The railings here are late 18th-century with spearhead standards and urn finials, and the wrought-iron gate includes a scrollwork overthrow. A 20th-century drive gate is not included in the listing.