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

The gateway to Hooton Pagnell Hall, along with the attached walls and garden cloakroom, was built between 1914 and 1920 by Granville Streatfeild for Sarah Julia Warde-Aldam. It is constructed from snecked dressed limestone and features Cotswold stone slate roofs. The entrance gateway has wing walls and turrets, with an attached wall at right angles on the right side of the drive-through arch. The roadside wall continues to the right and ends at the gateway, which leads to the garden cloakroom.

In the Arts and Crafts style, the main entrance features a chamfered plinth and a moulded segmental archway with oak doors, a corbel table, and ashlar coping. The flanking piers project forward and are topped with cornices and pyramidal roofs that have lead finials. The angled wing walls include a square turret on the left with a segmental arch for a pedestrian entrance, a pointed arch doorway, an ogee-headed window on the first floor, and a pyramidal roof with a finial. The octagonal turret on the right has paired ogee-headed windows on the first floor and a hipped roof with a finial.

A plaque in the ground-floor room at the rear states that the wall and gateway were erected by Sarah Julia Warde-Aldam with her head mason, George Henry Oates, from 1914 to 1920. The wall through the arch features a Tudor-arched doorway with a hoodmould and intermediate piers. The attached polygonal section of the wall on the south side incorporates fragments of old masonry from the Hall. The roadside wall continues to the right of the octagonal tower and steps down to a lower middle level. At the south end, a small garden cloakroom backs onto the wall and has piers flanking two leaded lights in oak frames, with a corniced wall topped with ball finials. The wall to the right has two quoined, Tudor-arched openings and a matching doorway beyond with decorative iron hinges. Related plans in the estate office are attributed to G. E. S. Streatfeild and F. L. Atwell, dated 1914-1923.