Adjoining Garden Wall at Nequis Hall Estate

This is an imposing gateway and associated walls, with a surviving ground-floor section of a Jacobean-style east wing, all dating back to the 1790s and representing the surviving work of Giffard. The gateway is constructed of sandstone ashlar on a narrow plinth and is symmetrical, featuring an advanced central entrance with a large four-centred chamfered arch. The arch's key features a sculpted head of Christ and a returned, moulded label. Flanking the arch are sculpted relief plaques, and above this sits a crenellated parapet. Short crenellated wall sections extend on either side, stepping down to lead to large, flanking drum towers. These towers have three horizontal string courses, the upper one larger and simply moulded, and the lower course continuing onto the connecting wall sections. The towers also feature central blind quatrefoils and flanking blind dumb-bell-shaped gun-loops.

To the south of the east tower, and to its right, is a contemporary section of ashlar walling, advanced and slightly concave in profile, with canted returns, and a crenellated parapet similar to the gateway. Three niches with depressed-arched heads and moulded labels, each stopped with a carved head, are present, with a blind quatrefoil positioned above each niche. These niches and quatrefoils are painted to simulate windows with intersecting tracery and leaded panes. Adjoining this section, and connecting with the main house to the east, is a further section of similar walling. This section was relocated to its present position from its original location to the west of the house in the mid-1960s.

The ground-floor section of the east wing, contemporary with the gateway, is situated behind the screen wall and adjoining the house to the east. It currently serves as the kitchen and service wing and has a flat roof with a moulded parapet. An off-centre entrance on the east face features 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, linked to a moulded label-course originating from 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 set to the rear of the wall, formerly serving as a privy block. The central section of the southwest-facing returned section of the garden wall features a contemporary Gothic entrance with a Tudor-arched head, returned moulded label, chamfered reveals, and voussoirs. The west return of this wall is constructed of brick and is staggered in three sloped stages, featuring a modern opening, and then continuing in two staggered stages to its termination.