Stables, Clock Tower And Outhouses At Beaumanor Hall

WOODHOUSE BEAUMANOR PARK SK 51 NW 1/138 Stables, Clock Tower and Outhouses at Beaumanor Hall

GV II*

Stables, clock tower and outhouses of c1842-54.Red brick in Jacobean style with stone dressings, parapet cornice, coped Dutch gables and plain tile roof with 2 ridge stacks. Buildings lie round large courtyard to right of mansion. Gauged brick lintels and fine quality doors,frames and overlights. Various tall 1 storey ranges project from mansion with stable and other doors. 3 gateway ranges, gables facing, with stone dressings to pilasters and stone arches with carved keystones. At right end of courtyard a range of 2 storeys and attic with 5 gables. Segmental arches over 5 pairs of carriage doors with 2-light stone mullion windows above, the central a French door. 5 bull's eye windows in gables. To either side a similar single storey of 1 arched doorway with bull's eye over. Rear of this range similar but without carriage doors, and to rear right an elaborate tall square clock tower of 5 stages, the 4th with holes to pigeon loft all round, the 5th of high relief carved stone strapwork etc., with a four faced clock, one of metal,the others of carved stone with Roman numerals. Above a leaded ogee-shaped roof with small lucarnes and short fleche. A brick wall with stone coping and end piers stretches part of way across courtyard near mansion. Buildings dated 1854 on rainwater heads.

Listing NGR: SK5378215798