Sandtoft Hall

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SE 70 NW BELTON SANDTOFT

6/25 Sandtoft Hall (formerly listed as 1.3.67 Sandtoft Grove)

GV II

House, now house and flats. Early - mid C18 origins to rear ranges, late C18 - early C19 south front; remodelling of rear ranges c1960, including inappropriate doors and windows. Probably for the Popplewell estate. Brick, rough rendered and colour-washed. South front has Welsh slate roof to front and sides, concrete tiles to rear; rear ranges have largely pantile roofs, with some concrete tiles to inner slopes. L-shaped on plan: 2-room south front with central octagonal entrance hall, stairhall to rear, and left room subdivided in C20; earlier 3-room east wing and 3-room range in north-west angle, both with plans somewhat altered in C20. 2 storeys. South front: 2:1:2 bays, with central canted entrance bay; 7 first-floor windows. Entrance has half-glazed door with 3 lights over 3 horizontal fielded-panels, beneath moulded lintel and plain overlight. 12-pane sashes to both floors with narrow glazing bars in flush wooden architraves with sills. Moulded wooden eaves cornice, hipped roof. Pair of corniced ridge stacks flanking central bay. Right return: south range to left has pair of similar ground-floor sashes and pair of painted first-floor dummy windows. Earlier east wing to right, with 4 first-floor windows, has inserted C20 door and overlight to left, and to right, an original 12-pane flush sash with thick glazing bars, a C20 2-light casement (perhaps inserted in former lobby entry), and pair of C20 3-light casements; similar first-floor windows above; hipped roof with ridge stack to left of centre. Board door in short brick-coped screen wall ramped down to right, with lower section overlain by later lean-to. Rear of east wing has inserted C20 French window to right, C20 casements to each floor. North-west range has 3 first-floor windows to north side: quoins, C20 French windows to left, pair of C20 2-light casements (probably in original openings) to right; pair of 12-pane first- floor flush sashes to left, C20 casement to right, corbelled brick eaves, hipped roof, ridge stack to right of centre. Interior. Good original details to south front. Entrance hall has pair of half-domed niches with panelled pilasters, fluted friezes and archivolts, 6-fielded panel doors in architraves, corniced dado rail, Doric plaster frieze with triglyphs, guilloche band and moulded cornice. Ground-floor right drawing room has good fielded panelling (probably early - mid C18) with moulded dado rail, projecting central sections to 2 walls with eared and scrolled shouldered bolection panels; carved wooden chimney-piece with eared architrave, ornate moulded cornice, eared and shouldered bolection panelled overmantel, also a late C18 - early C19 foliate frieze, dentilled cornice and delicate Adam- style plasterwork ceiling with central fan and garlands, side panels with lozenges and paterae, and reeded borders. Ground-floor left dining room has fluted dado rail, ornate plasterwork frieze with urns and anthemion, 6-panel door with fluted fielding in fluted architrave. Open-well cantilevered stone staircase with ramped and wreathed corniced hardwood handrail, plain wrought-iron balusters and column-on-vase newel post. Doric frieze and cornice to lower and upper stair-halls. Fine plasterwork ceiling to upper hall with garlanded panels flanking a central oval dome with ornate guilloche frieze, moulded cornice, garlands, ribbons and paterae, and domed top-light with radial glazing bars. First-floor central room has dentilled cornice, pilastered chimney-piece with fluted dosserets and central panel to frieze; right bedroom has chimney-piece with eared architrave and moulded cornice, and earlier C18 2-panelled door to central room with bolection moulding and L-hinges. Moulded skirting, fielded-panel window shutters and doors in architraves throughout, some doors with L-hinges. Earlier north- west range adjoining to rear contains beamed ceilings, 6-fielded-panel doors and good first-floor bedroom with early-mid C18 fielded panelling, moulded dado rail, deep moulded cornice, chimney-piece with moulded surround, Greek key frieze and dentilled cornice, eared and shouldered bolection overmantel. The Popplewell family of Temple Belwood owned Sandtoft in the C18, and the initials "RP" (possibly for Richard Popplewell) appear on the nearby coach- house/stable (qv). W Read, History of the Isle of Axholme, 1858, p 366; N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England; Lincolnshire, 1978, p 190.

Listing NGR: SE7407607994

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 190
Read, W, History of the Isle of Axholme, (1858), 366

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