Survey Data
Reg No
22900209
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1840 - 1850
Coordinates
228587, 123072
Date Recorded
11/09/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Gateway, c.1845, comprising pair of cut-stone panelled piers with shallow stepped detailed over, decorative cast-iron double gates, decorative cast-iron flanking pedestrian gates, cut-stone panelled outer piers with shallow stepped detailing over (one inscribed) supporting friezes, moulded cornices and blocking courses, coursed cut-stone curved flanking walls, cut-stone panelled terminating piers, and sections of irregular coursed squared rubble stone boundary walls to perimeter of site. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Gurteen Le Poer.
Appraisal
An elegantly-composed gateway, built to designs prepared by Charles Frederick Anderson (b. 1802, ret. 1866), as indicated by an inscription to one pier. The arrangement of the gateway as a central vehicular opening flanked by pedestrian screens might be considered a Classical interpretation of an earlier Gothic-style gateway providing access to the Gurteen Le Poer estate (22900205/WD-02-05). The construction and fine detailing of the gateway attests to high quality stone masonry and craftsmanship, and the composition forms a pleasing feature in the street scene.