Description

SANDHOE BEAUFRONT
NY 96 NE
5/296 South Lodge and
attached quadrant
walls

GV II

Gate lodge and quadrant walls, c.1870 by J.A. Hansom. Tooled-and-margined
ashlar with smooth ashlar dressings; roof not visible. Wood and iron gates.
Perpendicular Gothic style. South elevation in 3 parts, with chamfered plinth
and moulded string below embattled parapets. Centre tower holds double-chamfered
4-centred-arched doorway in square frame with traceried panels in spandrels and
heraldic stops to hoodmould; canted oriel above. Stacks with octagonal shafts
rising from parapet on each return; to rear right taller octagonal stair turret.
Single-storey flanking bays, that to right with canted bay window and to left
with 3-light window. All windows have diamond-latticed casements.

2-bay gate passage has groin vault with chamfered ribs springing from foliage-
carved corbels, and pointed doorway on each side. C19 openwork gates with stop-
chamfered stiles and rails, and iron dogbars with fleur-de-lys heads.

Quadrant walls each 13 bays with upper part set back between gabled piers; gabled
coping.

Listing NGR: NY9720565455

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26450038

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)