Remains Of Former Kirby Hall, And Attached Gateway, Walls And Carriage Gate Piers

The remains of the former Kirby Hall, along with an attached gateway, walls, and carriage gate piers, date from 1747 to around 1755. They were designed by Lord Burlington and Roger Morris for Stephen Thompson. The structure is built from limestone ashlar. The house wall features an angled and quadrant wall on the left side. It has a 7-bay rusticated basement with a former portico opening in the center, flanked by square window openings beneath flat arches made of voussoirs. To the left, there is a yard gate set in a rusticated, segment-arched opening in the wall, which has a moulded cornice and ball finials. The round-headed plank door has pegged-on panelling. The forecourt walls stand approximately 2.25 meters high on a plain plinth, with square-section pilaster piers and ball finials, and they ramp up to the yard gateway. An angled section to the left of the yard gate is balustraded, resting on a moulded plinth with moulded coping. The carriage gate piers are banded rusticated, square-section, and approximately 4.5 meters high, standing on moulded bases with moulded cornices, stepped-up caps, and pineapple finials. The Hall was demolished in the early 1920s and is illustrated in Vitruvius Brittanicus, Volume V, plates 70 and 71.