Gate, Gate Piers And Flanking Walls Approximately 80 Metres To South Of Conyngham Hall

SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH BOND END (west side, off)

6/63 Gates, gate piers and flanking walls approximately 80 metres to south of Conyngham Hall (q.v.)

GV II

Gates, gate piers and flanking walls. Late C18 or mid C19. Wrought-iron gates, ashlar piers and walls. Double gates, approximately 2.5 metres high at centre and ramped down to short railings fastened to piers, have spear- headed dog-bars, elaborate C and S scrolls and monogram 'E C C' in centre of each leaf. Gate piers: square in section, approximately 3 metres high, with plinths, 3 projecting bands to each shaft, wreathed shield, cornice and ball finial. Flanking walls: approximately 1.2 metres high, curving towards house with plinth, shallow gabled coping, C-scrolls against gate piers, and end piers with ball finials. The house (q.v.) was originally Coghill Hall; the name was changed when it was bought by Ellen, Countess of Conyngham in 1796, who restored and enlarged it. The monogram on the gates is probably hers, but the piers may date from a second major phase of rebuilding in 1856. H Speight, Nidderdale, 1894, p 312.

Listing NGR: SE3427657312