Gurteen Le Poer

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.

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.