Entrance Gateway, Aucheneck House

Circa 1880 with adjacent lodge and remodelling of house. Entrance gateway with obelisk-finialled piers at centre and swept wing walls. Sandstone ashlar piers flanking entrance (those at termination of wing walls droved); coursed decoratively tooled sandstone wing walls with ashlar coping. Pair of rectangular-plan gatepiers at centre (gates missing); each with base course, frieze and cornice and attached piers to outer (E) and inner (W) faces; rounded coping surmounted by obelisk finial. V-shaped coping to wing walls, flattened at apex and surmounted by decorative cast-iron railings (section missing to N side) incorporating trefoil finials and bands of cusped motifs. Wings terminate at chamfered square-plan piers, rising to octagonal-plan above; each with base course, frieze, cornice and octagonal pyramid coping.