Remains Of Gates And Gate Piers Abutting East Corner Of Poundisford Lodge And Walls Enclosing Garden, Continued South East To Garden House

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PITMINSTER CP POUNDISFORD Remains of gates and gate piers abutting east corner of Poundisford Lodge and walls enclosing garden, continued south-east to Garden House

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Gatepiers and walls, C18; remains of gates c1900. Walls red brick, Flemish bond, brick coping, pilaster buttresses.Gatepiers, red brick, square in plan, moulded plinths and cornices, stone ball finials. Gates, painted wood, double with 2 raised and fielded dado panels and dowelled slats forming a grill, tie beam above linking gatepiers, but gates now in pieces and very poor condition at time of survey (April 1985). Illustrated in Country Life, (see below).Plan:gatepiers abutting east with ruins of former green houses, returned north around garden (not sighted internally), the northern wall of which flanks the drive to Poundisford Lodge with the Stables (qv) opposite. later wall (not included in this list) stands below the east wall parallel with the public road. Garden wall continued south to Garden House (qv), This eastern length of wall in fact follows a line north-north-west by south-south-east along the contours of the Park Pale which enclosed the medieval deer park of the episcopal castle of Taunton, (Country Life, June 24, 1916).

Listing NGR: ST2229920833