The Grand St Leger Hotel With Flanking Screen Walls And Pavilion

TOWN OF DONCASTER BENNETTORPE SE 50 SE (south side)

3/12 The Grand St Leger Hotel with flanking screen walls 8.8.79 and pavilion (formerly listed as 'Bellevue House')

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House with screen walls and pavilion, now hotel. 1801, built for Alderman Lockwood,/ Bennethorpe, with later alterations. Stucco with painted stone dressings and slate roof. Central hallway plan. Three storeys and 5 bays by 3 bays, single-storey screen walls to either side, that to right ending in single storey, single bay pavilion. Plinth. Central semi-circular headed doorcase with C20 6-fielded panelled door and leaded fanlight, below Tuscan porch with blocking course. Two tall 12-pane sashes to either side. Above five 15-pane unequally hung sashes above plain sill band and with simple semi-circular ironwork balconies to fronts except that to centre with similar style square balcony over the porch. Above again 5 12-pane sashes. Windows to ground and second floors with projecting sills. Moulded stone cornice. Rendered end stacks. Return elevations with blind openings. Flanking wall to left has blind semi-circular headed recess with projecting sill, plain band at first-floor height and flat copings to parapets. Right screen wall similar but with C20 door; pavilion beyond with semi-circular headed sash window, similar band and copings. Interior has cantilevered stone staircase with stick balusters and wreathed handrail. Round arch into rear staircase hall. Bead panelled doors throughout. Front first floor room with original semi-circular headed niches flanking later fireplace.

Listing NGR: SE5910902812