Sandringham Hotel

The Sandringham Hotel comprises three villas or boarding houses, now used as a hotel. They date from the mid-19th century and may have been designed by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Duke of Devonshire. The buildings are constructed of rock-faced millstone grit with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate hipped roof, featuring reconstituted stone stacks.

The three-storey plus attic structure presents a five-window front. Features include vermiculated quoins, a plinth, first and second-floor sill bands, and a central segment arched doorway with a moulded impost and raised keystone, containing a panel door and overlight. Above the doorway is a flat-headed sash window within a segment-headed surround with a keystone. Two-storey canted bay windows flank the central doorway, each with a flat-headed lead roof and a single small sash window between them. Above, a small central segment-headed window has a 20th-century casement, flanked by two pairs of plain sash windows. Two gabled dormer windows with plain sashes are above, along with one flat-headed dormer to the left.

The return to the left side exhibits six windows, including three wooden three-storey canted bay windows; the rightmost bay window has stone ground and first floors. Dormers are above. A glazed lean-to porch is also present.

The interior has not been inspected. The Broad Walk is a collection of Victorian villas overlooking the Pavilion Gardens, initially laid out by Paxton around 1850. Many surrounding houses were built by speculative developers. Some buildings are reportedly designed by Paxton’s former pupil, Edward Milner, from 1871 and built by Saunders & Woolcott for the 7th Duke.