Gatepiers, Mansfield House Hotel

This is a large, two-story Greek Revival villa with a basement and attic, dating from 1870 and designed by John Thomas Rochead. A later extension was added to the southwest side in the 1990s. The building is rectangular and has a piend-roofed design, characterised by stone-mullioned windows, deep overhanging eaves, decorative stacks, a prominent porch, and an additional storey at the west corner, creating a tower-like impression. It is constructed of bull-faced yellow sandstone ashlar with tooled ashlar dressings, featuring a deep base course, first-floor band course, first-floor sill course, second-floor band course, and a continuous hoodmould supporting advanced masonry to the west corner. Raised cills are present, and the eaves are detailed with a distinctive course.

The northeast (entrance) elevation has roughly two bays. A gabled bay is advanced to the left, with stone urns flanking seven stone steps leading to a front door recessed within a shallow ridge-roofed porch supported by pink granite columns with acanthus capitals. Above the door is a bipartite, double-arched, keystoned window, and a key-blocked oculus sits in the apex. Tripartite mullioned windows are present to the basement and ground floor to the right, with single and bipartite windows above.

The northwest (principal) elevation features a left bay with tripartite mullioned windows on all floors. A slightly lower central section has a shallow ridge-roofed, concave-corbelled canted window advanced at ground floor and basement level. The right section is raised and incorporates tripartite mullioned windows at basement, ground, and first floors, and a five-light mullioned window at the second floor.

The southwest (side) elevation is tripartite, with a quadripartite mullioned window at second floor to the left; a 1990s function room extension is advanced to the right.

The southeast (rear) elevation displays irregular fenestration, including a tall round-arched stair window centrally positioned, a projecting single-storey 1990s extension to the left, and a projecting original wing to the outer left.

Plate glass is used in timber sash and case windows on the ground floor, while upper floors feature 3- and 6-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The roof is grey slate with metal ridges and ashlar stacks topped with circular buff clay cans.

The interior includes geometric and patterned ceramic floor tiles in the deep lobby, leading to a half-glazed, two-leaf timber inner door. Decorative plasterwork adorns the ceilings of ground-floor rooms and corridors. Marble chimneypieces and six-panel timber doors are found in the principal ground-floor rooms and some first-floor rooms. A timber staircase incorporates decorative cast-iron balusters and a polished timber handrail. Plaster cornices are present throughout the building.

Four square-plan gatepiers with stop-chamfered details and gabled caps on all sides connect to the inner piers via a low, coped, quadrant wall.