Walls, Gate Piers, Gates And Railings To Merefield House

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ST4409 EAST STREET 876-1/7/74 (North side) 12/06/50 Walls, gate piers, gates and railings to Merefield House. (Formerly Listed as: EAST STREET (North side) Gates, railings & walls to grounds, & summerhouse to grounds of Merefield House)

GV II*

Walls, gate piers, gates and railings. Late C17 and c1840. Limestone rubble walls, Ham Hill stone gate piers and plinths, and wrought-iron gates and railings. A full-height gate with elaborate overthrow bearing gilded heraldic arms above a lion face and leaves with florettes, has side-panels supported by gate piers with raised-and-fielded panels, moulded cornices and vases to the caps; there is a similar one to the left, and taller c1840, ones to a carriage entrance to the right. These have recessed panels similar to the aprons below the windows of the house, pineapple finials and C20 double gates. A coursed Ham Hill rubblestone plinth with a moulded coping, supports c1840 spearhead railings which sweep up to the gate piers at the centre. High limestone rubble walls extend approx 30m to each side. The arms on the gates (Merefield quartered with Williams and Colson) date them, acccording to family history, as late C17. (Pullman GPR: The Book of the Axe: Kingsmead Reprints Bath: 1875-1969: P.312).

Listing NGR: ST4428009842