Gatepiers, Mansfield House Hotel

John Thomas Rochead, dated 1870, with 1990s extension to SW. Large, 2-storey, basement and attic, rectangular-plan, piend-roofed Greek Revival villa with stone-mullioned windows, deep overhanging eaves, decorative stacks, prominent porch, and additional storey at W corner giving the impression of a tower. Bull-faced yellow sandstone ashlar with tooled ashlar dressings. Deep base course; 1st-floor band course; 1st-floor cill course; 2nd-floor band course and continuous hoodmould supporting advanced masonry to W corner; eaves course. Raised cills.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: Roughly 2 bays. Advanced, gabled bay to left with stone urns flanking 7 stone steps to half-glazed front door in round-arched, shallow ridge-roofed porch (see NOTES) flanked by pink granite columns with acanthus capitals; bipartite, double-arched, keystoned window above; key-blocked oculus in apex. Tripartite mullioned windows to basement and ground floor to right; single and bipartite windows above.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Left bay with tripartite mullioned windows to all floors. Slightly lower central section with shallow ridge-roofed, concave-corbelled canted window advanced at ground floor and basement. Raised right section with tripartite mullioned windows at basement, ground and 1st floors and 5-light mullioned window at 2nd floor.

SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3 bays. Quadripartite mullioned window at 2nd floor to left; 1990s function room extensions advanced to right.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: Irregular fenestration, with tall round-arched stair window to centre, projecting single-storey 1990s extension to left, and projecting original wing to outer left.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows at ground floor; 3- and 6-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to upper floors. Grey slate roof with metal ridges; ashlar stacks with circular buff clay cans.

INTERIOR: Geometric and patterned ceramic floor tiles to deep lobby with half-glazed 2-leaf timber inner door. Highly decorative plasterwork to ceilings of ground-floor rooms and corridors. Marble chimneypieces and 6-panel timber doors to principal ground-floor and some 1st-floor rooms. Timber stair with decorative cast-iron balusters and polished timber handrail. Plaster cornices throughout.

GATEPIERS: 4 square-plan, stop-chamfered gatepiers capped with gables to all four sides, the outer piers connected to the inner ones by a low, coped, quadrant wall.