Garden Walls and Gates

Pedestrian gates are usually three (3) to three and a half (3 1/2) feet wide. Vehicular gates are wider.
Porte-cochere wooden gates sometime includes a pedestrian or wicket door cut in the larger door, designed to function within the vehicular gate. Most porte-cochere gates were designed for security but often had open panels with decorative grilles above the lock rail or vertical iron bars covering open transom panels above the gates to allow for ventilation (See Carriageway Doors, P. 22). Iron gates with sheet metal or plastic panel backing are not appropriate. Many large wooden gates have been lost over the years and their return is encouraged.
Iron gates between multi-storied masonry buildings may be appropriate. Sheet metal, expanded metal mesh, and plastic backings attached to metal gates are not appropriate as security devices or for privacy. Only wooden gates between smaller scaled masonry buildings and wooden buildings are appropriate. Gates with metal frames and wooden facing, which give the appearance of wooden gates on the street facade, may be an acceptable alternative to wooden gates.
Brick walls are often more than seven (7) feet high with a coping at the top. New concrete block walls must be stuccoed. Replacement of brick garden walls must be accomplished in brick.
Wood fences are typically seven-board, feather edged on wood posts. Almost extinct are types with lower paneled wood sections with wood pickets above set between wood pilasters and painted.
Security devices above walls and gates should be as unobtrusive as possible. Barbed wire, concertina wire, razor ribbon wire, and other similar devises are inappropriate. Broken glass set in mortar is acceptable.