Listed Building record MDR24972 - Gates and Wall to Kings Newton Hall, Main Street, Melbourne

Gates and wall to Kings Newton Hall, Main Street, Melbourne, originally of 17th century date. From the National Heritage List for England: 'SK 32 NE PARISH OF MELBOURNE MAIN STREET, KINGS 3/127 NEWTON 10.11.67 (North Side) Gates and Attached Walls to Kings Newton Hall GV II Gates and attached walls. C17 and mid C18 with C19 repairs. Ashlar and rubble stone with iron gates. Pair of tall panelled mid C18 gate piers with moulded cornices and ball finials to front of the hall, with C18 iron gate between. The gate has strapwork panels to either side and a simple overthrow above, the gate itself is plain with an arrow headed dograil to the base. Attached to outer side of the piers there are ramped ashlar walls with double chamfered ashlar copings. Beyond this to the west there is a long 500 metre stretch of C17 rubble wall, also with double chamfered coping stones and a chamfered plinth, which bounds the road. To the western end there are a couple of openings, the plinth disappears and the copings change to rubble. Listing NGR: SK3880426187.' (1)