Whitehurst Garden Gatepiers with Gates and perimeter Garden Wall

The principal entrance through the 'D'-shaped encircling wall is on Holyhead Road: Tall sandstone ashlar gate piers of the late C17-early C18, approximately 3.5m high and square on plan, each face decorated with fielded panels, above which is a necking moulding and cornice. A curved pedestal on each formerly supported an urn finial garlanded with fruit and vegetables at the base of the lid (broken - now held at Whitehurst House). The iron gates with spear headed rails and spiked dog rails, harr hung at the base. N of the gates an impressive stone wall with internal buttress climbs up to Whitehurst House. S of the gates, the stone wall sweeps down, capped with 2-stage cut stone weathered copings for some 14m, after which the wall is lower and capped with a simple slab coping, sweeping round into the valley of the Afon Bradley, thence returning on the NE behind 1931 colliery housing, and becoming brick approximately half-way up the steep slope, perhaps the start of the C18 extension. The N end of the gardens is formed by a high straight stone wall faced with brick internally, and containing a stone ashlar gateway with a curved lintel and keystone inscribed R.M 1785 (Richard Myddleton) Replacement studded oak door.