Gatepiers, Gate, Boundary Wall Fronting Road And Garden Wall To Terrace At Halsway Manor

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.