Door 40
I saw this door yesterday, while on a short walkabout looking for (yes…predictably) street art. The door is situated at the bottom end of a walled garden belonging to a house called Field House – the words can just about be seen engraved into the keystone at the top of the arch. That was all I knew about the place, so I set to work…thank you Interweb.
The House, which is Grade II listed, was built in the early part of the 19th century, and when it was first built, there was not much in the way of other buildings in the immediate vacinity.
You can see Field House in the map above appearing as a square in the centre of the picture – the garden is still intact today.
Not an awful lot has changed by 1855, but the map is a little bit more detailed. There is a small outbuilding in the bottom corner of the garden.
By the 1880s there is a major change and many new houses have appeared, especially to the north of Field House. Urbanisation, population growth and the impacts of the industrial revolution will all have contributed to the spread of housing in the city.
By the 1900s the area had become swamped by the growth of the city, however, the walled garden has remained and is a small oasis and time capsule of how things were.
I took a peek through the door and the garden is no longer a grand garden with organised flowerbeds, but is laid out as a split level lawn…looking very yellow due to the lack of rain with one or two trees. The outbuilding is no longer there.
Great to understand a little more about what lies behind a door.
by Scooj
More doors at: Thursday Doors – Norm 2.0
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What an intriguing door, nice post, I find that doors something to write about.
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Great research!
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Thanks, I enjoyed finding the maps.
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Does it still have all that land with it? If so It must be worth a fair few bob by now I would think. Nice door too
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Yes, the garden is still there, large for the area. The house is enormous, but the bits facing the road are very bland. It needs to be viewed from the garden, which I guess when it was built was the front of the house.
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Love the wall and door. Thanks for posting those old maps, they really give a nice sense of what it must have been like in the past and how built up it became as time went on.
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Thank you. Finding the door saved my skin as I didn’t have a door ready to post.
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What a grand arch and door. I really like that.
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It is grand isn’t it.
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Great stonework as well.
janet
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I think it is the original wall.
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Wow! Great detective work, Sherlock Scooj. Love that door!!
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Thank you. It was all a bit of good fortune finding it.
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An appealingly over the top doorway and an interesting snapshot of urban change.
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It was a statement doorway I think.
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Thank Heaven for documentation! Maps definitely tell a story.
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Definitely in this case
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