Gateway To Hooton Pagnell Hall Including Wall On Right Of Driveway And Roadside Wall Linking To Garden Cloakroom

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HOOTON PAGNELL HOOTON PAGNELL HALL Entrance gateway to Hooton Pagnell Hall including wall on right of driveway and roadside wall linking to garden cloakroom

GV II

Gateway with attached walls and garden cloakroom. Dated 1914-1920. By Granville Streatfeild for Sarah Julia Warde-Aldam. Snecked dressed limestone, Cotswold stone slate roofs. Entrance gateway with wing walls and turrets, attached wall at right angles on right of drive through arch, roadside wall continues to right and terminates at gateway beyond attached garden cloakroom. In Arts and Crafts style. Main entrance: chamfered plinth. Moulded segmental archway with oak doors, corbel table, ashlar coping. Flanking piers break forward and have cornices and pyramidal roofs with lead finials. Angled wing walls; square turret on left has segmental arch to pedestrian entrance with pointed arch to doorway within, ogee- headed lst-floor window, pyramidal roof with finial; octagonal turret on right has paired ogee-headed windows to 1st floor and hipped roof with finial. Plaque in ground-floor room (to rear) states:

"THIS WALL AND GATEWAY / WERE ERECTED BY / SARAH JULIA WARDE-ALDAM / BY HER HEAD MASON "/ GEORGE HENRY OATES / 1914 to 1920".

Wall through arch has Tudor-arched doorway with hoodmould and intermediate piers; attached polygonal section of wall on south side incorporates fragments of old masonry from the Hall. Roadside wall continues to right of octagonal tower with step down to lower middle level. Small garden cloakroom at south end backs onto wall and has piers flanking 2 leaded lights in oak frames, corniced wall has ball finials. Wall to right has 2, quoined, Tudor-arched openings, matching doorway beyond with decorative iron hinges.

Related plans in estate office carry the names G. E. S. STREATFEILD and F. L. ATWELL and dates 1914-1923.

Listing NGR: SE4852307891