Entrance To Old Gillingwood Hall Approximately Five Metres South West Of Gillingwood Hall

GILLING WITH HARTFORTH OLD HALL LANE NZ 10 SE AND SEDBURY (south side)

8/136 Entrance to Old Gillingwood Hall 4.2.69 approximately 5 metres south-west of Gillingwood Hall (formerly listed as Gateway at Old Gillingwood Hall)

GV II

Doorway set within short length of wall. Early-mid C18. For the Wharton family. Ashlar and rubble sandstone. Ashlar doorway set into rubble wall which extends approximately 1 metre on either side. Doorway: round-arched opening with horizontal tooling and archivolt rising from capitals, set within aedicule of fluted Roman Doric engaged columns carrying full Doric entablature with guttae, triglyphs, metopes with paterae and mutules with acanthus motif, surmounted by pediment. To right, part of window surround still set within rubble wall. The rear of the wall shows signs of burning from the fire which destroyed Old Gillingwood Hall in 1750. The doorway is blocked to form a recessed niche. This was the front door to Old Gillingwood Hall.

Listing NGR: NZ1708104722