Indeed, it could be orange. The picture is so bad that, on my screen, it shows somewhat reddish. However, the more I look at it, the more orangey it appears.
I agree it is perforated 15 horizontally, so it is the Harrison printing with perforation 15x14.
Most bicoloured stamps did not have these pillars, which would question the function of either a method to prevent fraudulent use of the stamp-sized gutter and the prevention of damage to the clichés. Since the Jubilee Lines on all stamps are closest to those clichés, they would have served to prevent such damage as well.
The plates for the 10d stamp had another layout where the central gutter was two stamps high and perforated through the centre. These gutters also had a watermark. Here it has been established that the pillars served to prevent fraudulent use:

In this case, the pillars were not part of the plates. In the other cases that had them as in the OP, they were.