gates/railings/walls

Gateway, c.1800, comprising pair of rusticated cut-stone monolithic piers with rusticated cut-stone capping having wrought iron double gates and sections of rubble stone flanking boundary walls with rubble stone coping.

This gateway is an attractive feature on the streetscape of Main Street. The construction of the piers is an example of the high quality of stone masonry practised in the locality, while the gates are a good example of early surviving wrought iron work. The construction of the boundary wall is representative of the traditional method of constructing boundary walls and is an important survival – elsewhere, traditional walls have been replaced with unsympathetic modern versions. The use of locally-quarried rubble granite is a feature shared with further buildings in the locality of Castledermot.