Description

TOWN OF DONCASTER BENNETTORPE
SE 50 SE (south side)

3/12 The Grand St Leger Hotel
with flanking screen walls
8.8.79 and pavilion
(formerly listed as
'Bellevue House')

- II

House with screen walls and pavilion, now hotel. 1801, built for Alderman Lockwood,/
Bennethorpe, with later alterations. Stucco with painted stone dressings and slate
roof. Central hallway plan. Three storeys and 5 bays by 3 bays, single-storey
screen walls to either side, that to right ending in single storey, single bay
pavilion. Plinth. Central semi-circular headed doorcase with C20 6-fielded
panelled door and leaded fanlight, below Tuscan porch with blocking course. Two
tall 12-pane sashes to either side. Above five 15-pane unequally hung sashes above
plain sill band and with simple semi-circular ironwork balconies to fronts except
that to centre with similar style square balcony over the porch. Above again 5
12-pane sashes. Windows to ground and second floors with projecting sills. Moulded
stone cornice. Rendered end stacks. Return elevations with blind openings.
Flanking wall to left has blind semi-circular headed recess with projecting sill,
plain band at first-floor height and flat copings to parapets. Right screen wall
similar but with C20 door; pavilion beyond with semi-circular headed sash window,
similar band and copings. Interior has cantilevered stone staircase with stick
balusters and wreathed handrail. Round arch into rear staircase hall. Bead
panelled doors throughout. Front first floor room with original semi-circular
headed niches flanking later fireplace.

Listing NGR: SE5910902812

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26601294

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)