Beauchief Hall and Adjoining Steps Forecourt Walls and Gates

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SK38SW BEAUCHIEF DRIVE 784-1/9/70 (North West side) 01/05/52 Beauchief Hall and adjoining steps, forecourt walls and gates (Formerly Listed as: BEAUCHIEF DRIVE Beauchief Hall) (Formerly Listed as: BEAUCHIEF DRIVE Walls, piers, railings to forecourt of Beauchief Hall & Gateway to SE)

GV II*

Country house, now offices, and attached steps, forecourt and garden walls and railings. Dated 1671, remodelled 1836, restored c1989. Coursed squared stone and ashlar with ashlar dressings and hipped stone slate roofs with 6 large coped ridge stacks and 3 smaller side wall stacks. EXTERIOR: plinth, string courses, coped parapet. 2 storeys plus basement; 7 x 5 windows. Windows are mainly wooden cross casements with moulded mullions and transoms. Main south front has a 3 window centre flanked on either side by 2 canted 3 storey bay windows with a single window on each floor. Central heavily rusticated round-headed doorcase with Latin inscription and the date 1671 above it, beneath a flat topped porch, 1836, with lotus columns and a wooden balustrade. On each side, a closely spaced single window. The door is reached by a segmental arched ashlar bridge with moulded coped balustrade, and below it, a plain square headed doorway to the basement. At the forecourt end of the bridge, a landing with segmental steps on either side. From the landing, steps to the garden, with moulded coped balustrade. On either side of the steps, a chamfered doorway to passages under the landing. Beyond, on either side, a ramped balustraded wall dividing the forecourt from the garden, the left return having a pair of panelled square gate piers with cornices and ball finials. Central second floor window has moulded surround and cornice. Above it, pilasters rising through the parapet and topped with urns, flanking an enriched ogee headed pediment dated 1836, with ball finial. Below the basement, six 2-light stone mullioned windows to the cellar. Right return has central steps with coped solid balustrades to round-arched door with keystone, beneath a flat-roofed stone porch with single Doric columns. On either side, 2 cross casements, those to the left smaller. Above, a small central window with moulded surround and cornice, flanked by 2 cross casements. Basement has four 2-light mullioned windows, the outer ones with stone mullions. Left return has a small glazing bar window in a reduced opening, flanked by 2 cross casements, 2 of them with stone mullions. Above, a small 2-light window with restored stone balcony with balustrade, on curved stone brackets. On either side, 2 cross casements, the right one with stone mullions. Below, a central round-headed door flanked to left by two 2-light mullioned casements and to right by another similar window. Rear elevation has central wing with shouldered gable and string courses. Large 4-light stone cross mullioned window and above, a smaller similar 3-light window. Below, 2 small 2-light stone mullioned windows one above another. To right, a recessed bay with 4 floors, with 2 mullioned or cross mullioned windows on each floor. To left, a similar bay with mainly cross casements, its left half largely covered by a 3-storey square extruded corner with a single window on the upper floors and a C20 double door to the basement. Parapeted wings on either side have 2 stone mullioned 2-light windows and above, single wooden cross casements. Left wing has two 2-light mullioned windows to the basement. INTERIOR has open well dogleg wooden staircase, early C18, remodelled C19, with turned balusters and newels. C17 minor stair, oak with turned balusters and newels. Entrance hall has pine panelling, possibly resited, moulded cornice and large alabaster fireplace with strapwork, pilasters, dentilled mantelshelf and corniced overmantel with demi-figure. Ground floor room to right has moulded plaster wall panels and cornice, and a smaller alabaster fireplace with shaped pilasters and dentilled cornice. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, coursed squared stone garden walls enclosing a garden approx. 70 x 25m. Higher side walls have rubble coping and to north-east, a pair of square ashlar gate piers with cornices and finials in the shape of pyramids supported on 4 balls. Attached to the east side, and running east then north, a lower wall with chamfered and moulded stone coping, with a pair of gate piers with pyramid finials and 2 other piers without finials. Lower south end wall, C18, has chamfered ashlar coping and wrought-iron railing. Central pair of panelled square ashlar gate piers with plinths and cornices, topped with busts. Pair of wrought-iron gates with overthrow with coat of arms. Plain square end piers topped with urns. (The Buildings of England: N Pevsner: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 476).

Listing NGR: SK3289681522

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Sources

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Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 476

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