Survey Data
Reg No
40401111
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Demesne walls/gates/railings
Date
1770 - 1790
Coordinates
242137, 318559
Date Recorded
17/06/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding neo classical demesne entrance screen, built c.1780. Decorative cast-iron gates, flanked by tall square-profile ashlar piers with V-jointed rustication, square profile string course, large stone block forming frieze with Adamesque ovoid fan in low-relief, and shallow capping stones to top. Decorative wing railings set on low stone parapet walls terminated by square-profile stone piers.
Appraisal
This entrance screen is one of the few remaining outward signs of the Castle Saunderson demense. Modest in size and expression, it is expertly formed with elegant neo-Classical detail, typical of the late eighteenth century, and its style perhaps reflects that of the former Georgian house which was remodelled in exuberant Gothic Revival style in the 1830s. The entrance has lost its historic prominence, as it is now located in a layby, having been bypassed to form a triangular area on which a gate lodge once stood.