The Grand St Leger Hotel With Flanking Screen Walls And Pavilion

The Grand St Leger Hotel, originally known as Bellevue House, is a house with flanking screen walls and a pavilion, now functioning as a hotel. It was built in 1801 for Alderman Lockwood in Bennethorpe and has undergone later alterations. The building features stucco with painted stone dressings and a slate roof. It has a central hallway plan and stands three storeys high with five bays across and three bays deep. There are single-storey screen walls on either side, with the right side ending in a single-storey, single-bay pavilion.

The façade includes a plinth and a central semi-circular headed doorcase with a 20th-century six-fielded panelled door and a leaded fanlight, all beneath a Tuscan porch with a blocking course. On either side of the door are two tall 12-pane sash windows. Above, there are five 15-pane unequally hung sashes set above a plain sill band, with simple semi-circular ironwork balconies on the fronts, except for the centre which has a square balcony over the porch. The top storey features five 12-pane sashes, with windows on the ground and second floors having projecting sills. A moulded stone cornice runs along the top, and there are rendered end stacks. The return elevations have blind openings.

The flanking wall on the left has a blind semi-circular headed recess with a projecting sill, a plain band at first-floor height, and flat copings on the parapets. The right screen wall is similar but includes a 20th-century door; beyond it is the pavilion with a semi-circular headed sash window, a similar band, and copings. Inside, there is a cantilevered stone staircase with stick balusters and a wreathed handrail, and a round arch leads into the rear staircase hall. Bead panelled doors are found throughout, and the front first-floor room features original semi-circular headed niches flanking a later fireplace.