Walls Enclosing Nursery Garden, Immediately West Of The Coach House, And Gateway And Walls To Hamstone House (Not Listed)

ST4615 NORTON SUB HAMDON CP GREAT STREET (North side) 9/204 Walls enclosing nursery garden, immediately west of The Coach House, and gateway and walls to Hamstone House (not listed) - GV II Walls enclosing former garden to the Manor House (q.v), now nursery garden. Possibly late C18 or early C19. Ham stone. Ashlar walls with plain coping, nearly 3 metres high; but the enclosing walls to north in brick or brick lined, English garden wall bond, with thin stone copings and curved sweeps as the walls go uphill, northwards; gateway in west end. Opposite Hamstone House (not included in the list) the ashlar wall reduces to about 1.2 metre high, with gateway on east side of frontage; 4 square ashlar piers with plain plinths, bell-hip caps, linked in pairs by concave quarter-circle plan walls with sweeps up to central gatepiers. C20 gates. The whole relevant to the context of the Manor House, (q.v) and to the streetscene at the entrance to the village.

Listing NGR: ST4680115950