Description

ASHCOMBE ROAD
1.
4430
(South Side)
CARSHALTON
Rear Garden Walls
to Nos 5 to 27 (odd)
(Former Boundary Wall
to Carshalton Park)
TQ 2863 34/4
II
2.
Early C18; date 1716 carved into a brick pillar at east end; southern boundary
wall to former Carshalton Park. Red brick wall with rounded and battered coping;
plinth; brick pilasters at intervals. To east of No 5 wall continues as south
garden wall to No 32 Woodstock Road (see Woodstock Road, Carshalton). To rear
of Nos 5 and 7 two imposing tall brick pillars with stone capping, easternmost
one with date 1716. Wall broken down for garages to rear of probably Nos 11
and l3. A lower section around rear of No 17 with paler courses of brickwork
added at the top above C18 coping; latter probably of C19 date; square pillar
with stone capping. The magnificent wrought-iron gates flanked by statues of
Diana and Actaeon and formerly in east boundary wall to The Park have been removed
to Planting Fields, Oyster Bay, Baltimore, now owned by New York University.

Listing NGR: TQ2823363930

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26318745

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