The old wrought iron railings by Brewery Bridge

As part of the recording of local buildings and architectural items of interest, I returned to take some pictures of the wrought iron railings by Brewery Bridge. When Camilla and I first spotted them on Thursday the car parking space was full which provided a very poor background. 

Various volunteers are walking around different parts of the town to establish the items of interest within the Neighbourhood Development Plan area. We hope will give them some protection so that if any development occurs these important features will be preserved.  All our observations will be reviewed and if accepted the District council's Planning department will hold the database which anybody will be able to view.

This bit of land is a bit of a test case. The biggest local employer has their headquarters just beside the roundabout beside the bridge in the background. They bought some land which was formerly part of an historic house that is a Grade 2 Listed building, which another business now owns. On the north side of the Listed property there are these intricate wrought iron railings surrounding the property on the boundary. Once part of it was sold the new owners may not realise that the railings were listed.

As it happens the new purchasers have made an effort to paint the railings and actually created this new gate in the same style so that their staff who are the car owners can access the site easily. Further up the road beyond the car park the railings continue but are nearly completely hidden inside a very overgrown and wild hedge.

I rather liked that the trees have grown up around the railings in many places so that the tree trunk surrounds the iron work. Some of these stumps have been left in situ. The one in the foreground is quite a small tree compared to others further down this road suitably named as The Hill.

I also think that the railings are on a raised section of ground which may be the very old boundary markers of the land. Typically earth banks were used as indicators of where land ownership changed and often remain incorporated into old estates, which this was once part of, despite it being close to the very heat of the town centre.