Gatepiers, Gate, Boundary Wall Fronting Road and Garden Wall to Terrace at Halsway Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. A Post-medieval Gatepiers, walls.
Gatepiers, Gate, Boundary Wall Fronting Road and Garden Wall to Terrace at Halsway Manor
- WRENN ID
- guardian-forge-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Gatepiers, walls
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- Gatepiers, Gate, Boundary Wall Fronting Road and Garden Wall to Terrace at Halsway Manor, Halsway Lane, Bicknoller
- OS grid reference
- ST 126 381
- Coordinates
- 51.13595, -3.25015
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatepiers, gate, boundary wall fronting the road, and garden wall to the terrace at Halsway Manor are notable structures, likely dating from the 17th century but reset in the late 19th century. The gatepiers are made of ashlar sandstone, standing about 2.25 meters high, with flat tops, square shapes, a cavetto moulded cornice, a moulded plinth, and incised decorations featuring arched head panels. The double gates, possibly from the mid-20th century, are crafted from wrought iron with undulating spearhead uprights and a horizontal band of enriched decoration above rondel panels adorned with crosses.
The walls, constructed in the late 19th century, feature ashlar red sandstone with round-headed arcades, fluted pilasters, and imposts. They include a moulded handrail and plinth set on a random rubble dwarf wall, reaching about 1.5 meters in height. The walls are interspersed with segmental-headed piers that have volutes and oval panels in the tympanum, some topped with ball finials on pyramid supports. A random rubble wall flanks the gateway and extends northwest with arcades leading to a wellhead. There is a short flight of steps interrupting the wall, which returns on either side to a garden gate (not included) aligned with the entrance to Halsway Manor.
The arcaded sections are flanked by random rubble walls with simple ball-topped piers that front the terrace in front of the house, partially returning on the east side towards the previously described gatepiers and gate. This wall likely originally enclosed the entire area between the house and the road. An article by R. M. Billington in Country Life from August 18, 1977, titled "A Somerset Draw for Painters - Victorian Artists at Halsway Manor," illustrates the house and garden before and after the 19th-century alterations.
Local climate
Gatepiers, Gate, Boundary Wall Fronting Road and Garden Wall to Terrace at Halsway Manor receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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