Garden walls and gateways to west of Talbot Hotel

Garden wall with gateways, partly early C18, partly late C19 reusing earlier materials.

MATERIALS Inner face mainly C18 red brick, but including larger C19 brick, generally laid in English Garden Wall bond. Outer face mainly coursed, squared limestone rubble. Archways of Hildenley limestone ashlar. Flat coping mainly stone but including some concrete.

DESCRIPTION The wall, generally about 2.5m high, stepping up the hill, runs west for about 100m before turning south for about 30m. Near central to this western wall, facing the west entrance to the Talbot Hotel, is a very boldly designed square headed archway of radiating stone voussoirs and heavily rusticated jambs. The outer, west face is not ornamented, having a simple flat arch of stone voussoirs. The archway is infilled with brick on the inner face and stone on the outer. Near central to the wall along Yorkersgate there is a similar (although repositioned) archway, but with the stonework to the northern, outer face and brickwork with a gauged flat arch to the south face. This archway is not blocked, but is closed with a later iron gate.