Gates And Gate Piers, Busby Glen Park is a Grade B listed building in the East Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 January 2002. Gates and railings.
Gates And Gate Piers, Busby Glen Park
- WRENN ID
- sharp-bronze-aspen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Renfrewshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 January 2002
- Type
- Gates and railings
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sydney Mitchell & Wilson, architects, with Thomas Hadden, blacksmith, circa 1925. Enclosed park entrance screened with square granite piers and decorative splayed, gently curved quadrant railings and 2-leaf gates, with turning space similarly enclosed with further stretch of railings and 3 squat stone piers; decorative pedestrian gate to lodge house. Wrought-ironwork incorporating wild life (owl, lark) and botanical (cherry, acorn, ivy) details, and foliate and floral ornament.
MAIN ENTRANCE: 2-leaf swept and finialled gates to centre each including decorative panels and with railed posts capped with fleuron and scrolled brackets. Bull-faced granite piers with cushion caps flanking, both with rectangular panels, E pier's with bronze dedicatory plaque (see Notes). Railings flanking including straight and quadrant sections, now part-obscured by foliage, with decorative panels and finials at intervals, and ornate scrolls making transition to lower railings of outer sections.
OUTER PIERS: low squat versions of main granite piers with cushion caps.
LODGE GATE: iron gate with decorative central panel, flanked by finialled and railed posts.
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