Description

ST71NW
6/97

HENSTRIDGE CP
HENSTRIDGE ASH
SHERBORNE ROAD (North side)
Front Gate to Inwood

II

Gateway. C19. Portland stone and wrot iron. Pair central gates with piers, side railings and outer piers. Central piers about 1 metre square at base and 4.5 metres high: moulded plinth; rusticated shaft; corbelled bracketted cyma recta caps with double steps and lead statues set thereon, the West a woman with a rake, the right a man with a sickle; link base walls to plainer side piers with ball finials. Gates have side frets and overthrow incorporating cartouche with letters MG (for Merthyr Guest) all in wrot iron openwork: gates are very ornate in French style, having shouldered arched tops: side railings with scrolled sweeps to match.
Part of a large estate with many good collected items; the main house, of 1881, of lesser interest and not listed.

Listing NGR: ST7150619887

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26647950

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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