Silverspring House

Gateway, extant 1903, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of benchmark-inscribed cut-granite panelled piers on moulded cushion courses on plinths having shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron double gates with cut-granite panelled outer piers having shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron railings. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Silverspring House.

A gateway not only making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene at the entrance on to the grounds of the Silverspring House estate, but also clearly illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the estate in the later nineteenth century: meanwhile, a discreet benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).