Description

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HOOTON PAGNELL
HOOTON PAGNELL HALL
Entrance gateway to Hooton Pagnell Hall including wall on right of driveway and roadside wall linking to garden cloakroom

GV
II

Gateway with attached walls and garden cloakroom. Dated 1914-1920. By Granville
Streatfeild for Sarah Julia Warde-Aldam. Snecked dressed limestone, Cotswold
stone slate roofs. Entrance gateway with wing walls and turrets, attached wall
at right angles on right of drive through arch, roadside wall continues to right
and terminates at gateway beyond attached garden cloakroom. In Arts and Crafts
style. Main entrance: chamfered plinth. Moulded segmental archway with oak doors,
corbel table, ashlar coping. Flanking piers break forward and have cornices and
pyramidal roofs with lead finials. Angled wing walls; square turret on left has
segmental arch to pedestrian entrance with pointed arch to doorway within, ogee-
headed lst-floor window, pyramidal roof with finial; octagonal turret on right has
paired ogee-headed windows to 1st floor and hipped roof with finial. Plaque in
ground-floor room (to rear) states:

"THIS WALL AND GATEWAY / WERE ERECTED BY / SARAH JULIA WARDE-ALDAM / BY HER HEAD
MASON "/ GEORGE HENRY OATES / 1914 to 1920".

Wall through arch has Tudor-arched doorway with hoodmould and intermediate piers;
attached polygonal section of wall on south side incorporates fragments of old
masonry from the Hall. Roadside wall continues to right of octagonal tower with
step down to lower middle level. Small garden cloakroom at south end backs onto
wall and has piers flanking 2 leaded lights in oak frames, corniced wall has ball
finials. Wall to right has 2, quoined, Tudor-arched openings, matching doorway
beyond with decorative iron hinges.

Related plans in estate office carry the names G. E. S. STREATFEILD and
F. L. ATWELL and dates 1914-1923.

Listing NGR: SE4852307891

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26444532

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)