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Solsborough House

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Solsborough House
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Quadrant gateway erected 1863. Square-plan cut limestone piers with moulded panels to inner and outer ends of quadrants. Inner piers flanked by ornate cast-iron piers to pedestrian entrances. Similar ornate cast-iron gates and railings, latter with limestone plinth. Snecked dressed limestone walls with triangular coping to site boundary. The inscription on the northern pier unusually gives the builder's name and date of erection of the gateway.
These gates and railings are of apparent artistic value, and evidently the work of skilled craftsmen. The attention to detail is such that the outer pier to the north has been carved on two faces and turned at an angle to present a pleasing aspect to both approaches. These impressive gates form an interesting group with Solsborough House, its outbuildings and walled garden.

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