Description

BEWERLEY GLASSHOUSES ROAD
SE 16 SE (north side)

8/5 Garden wall with gateway
attached to south-east
corner of Old Hall

GV II

Garden wall and gateway. C18. Coursed squared gritstone and ashlar coping.
Approximately 40 metres long and 3 metres high, ramped down 5 times and
following ground slope to edge of Fosse Gill. Gateway: quoined jambs, flat
arch; the wall carried over as a stepped parapet. A square stone panel in
projecting stone surround over west side. The wall is the western boundary
of the large enclosed gardens which served the Old Hall (qv) and its
replacement to the north-west in the C18. The parapet is surmounted at
intervals by pieces of sculpted stone, probably from the remains of the
Fountains Abbey Grange on this site.

Listing NGR: SE1599764686

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26275834

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)