Adjoining Garden Wall at Nerquis Hall Estate

This is a castellated Gothic gateway with ancillary walls and a surviving section of a Jacobean wing, built on the Nerquis Hall Estate before 1797. The gateway, constructed by John Giffard, provides access to a service court and is built of sandstone ashlar on a narrow plinth. It is symmetrical, featuring a central entrance with a large four-centred chamfered archway, a key stone sculpted with a head of Christ, and a moulded label. Sculpted relief plaques and a crenellated parapet are above the arch. Short, crenellated wall sections connect to large flanking drum towers, which have three string courses; the upper course is larger and simply moulded, while the lower course continues onto the connecting wall sections. The towers also feature central blind quatrefoils and flanking dumb-bell-shaped gun-loops.

To the south of the tower, a contemporary section of ashlar walling extends outwards and has a slightly concave profile with canted returns and a crenellated parapet. Three niches are set into the wall, each with a depressed-arched head, a moulded label, and a carved head. Above each niche is a blind quatrefoil, painted to resemble windows with intersecting tracery and leaded panes. Further walling of similar design connects to the house to the east; this section was moved to its current position in the mid-1960s from an original location to the west of the house.

Behind this screen wall, and adjoining the house to the east, is the surviving ground-floor section of the Jacobean east wing of the house, contemporary with the gateway. It is currently the kitchen and service wing, featuring a flat roof with a moulded parapet. An off-centre entrance to the east face has a deeply recessed late 19th-century door with a two-part leaded light above, flanked by recessed leaded cross-windows. The south face has two six-light mullioned and transomed windows, connected to the label course of the main house. Adjoining this to the south and continuing around in three planes to the east, is a tall rubble garden wall with a plain stone capping. A slate-roofed brick and rubble lean-to is at the rear, formerly a privy block. A contemporary Gothic entrance with a Tudor-arched head, returned moulded label, chamfered reveals and voussoirs is situated in the centre of the southwest-facing returned section. The west return of the wall is of brick and is staggered in three sloped stages, including a modern opening. The wall then continues west in two staggered stages to its termination.