Beaumont Hall

OADBY SP60 SW STOUGHTON DRIVE SOUTH (West Side)

2/16 Beaumont Hall

GV II

House. 1908 by Stockdale Harrison. Largely brick with diaper work and stone dressings with some tile hanging and half timbering. Plain tiled roof. Domestic Revival style using an asymmetrical grouping of different vernacular idioms. 2 storeyed with attics, L-plan, one wing comprising the service end. Entrance front in courtyard formed by wings with full height gabled porch with round arched entrance and a wood mullioned and transomed window above it. Beyond this to the right one wide bay has 4 light mullioned and transomed window to ground floor, grouped windows of 1 and 3 lights above and a dormer contained within the roof. The service wing is treated differently, with smooth rendered upper storey, wood casement windows and large gabled dormers. Overhanging eaves with long wrought-iron brackets. Gable wall of main range also treated architecturally with projecting inglenook stack with small stained glass light piercing it, and tile hung gable over canted bay beyond, which has leaded casement with stone mullions. Garden front consists of 4 bays, paired gables to the left, a single gable to the right, separated by a huge low sweep to the roof, over a wide canted bay window which is sheltered by the overhanging eaves. Dormer within the roof above it. The right hand gable has a wide canted bay window with a sun dial inscribed "horas non numero nisi serenas" above it. Canted bay window on inner of the left hand bays, with grouped casements of 1 and 3 lights beyond. In the side elevation to the west, a projecting gabled bay is half timbered with an oriel window with small central bow at first floor level, and coving to jettied gable apex above. Massive gable and axial stacks, expressed and moulded.

Listing NGR: SK6167001666