Survey Data
Reg No
15702022
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
299915, 142502
Date Recorded
10/12/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Gateway, extant 1840, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of lichen-spotted rusticated granite ashlar piers on moulded cushion courses on plinths having ogee-detailed cornices below finial-topped capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron double gates. Now disused. One of a pair. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Solsborough House.
Appraisal
A gateway not only making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene at an entrance on to the grounds of the Solsborough House estate, but also surviving as an interesting relic of the eighteenth-century country house annotated as "Rahain [of] Richards Esqr." by Taylor and Skinner (1778, pl. 142; cf. 157020--).