Description

In the entry for:-

SK 44 NE GREASLEY MOORGREEN LANE
(north east side)

2/31 Beauvale House,
27/6/86 Service wing and
stables and garden
wall

II*

The entry shall be amended to read:-

SK 44 NE GREASLEY NEW ROAD
Moorgreen
(north east side)

2/31 Beauvale House,
27/6/86 Service wing and
stables and garden
wall

II*

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SK 44 NE GREASLEY MOORGREEN LANE
(north east side)

2/31 Beauvale House,
Service wing and
stables and garden
wall

27.6.86 II*

Small country house with attached service wing and stables.
1871-73. Designed by E. W. Godwin for the 7th Earl Cowper. Old
English Revival style. Brick with timber framing, brick nogging
and patterned tile hanging. Steep pitched plain tiled hipped and
gabled roofs. 2 storeys plus attics, 5 bays. L-plan. Windows
are mainly leaded timber cross and French casements, many with
segmental heads. Entrance front has to left, door with
overlight. To its right a large casement and 4 smaller
casements. To right again, moulded pointed doorway with studded
double door. Beyond, a casement. Above door, datestone
inscribed 'C.1873", and 2 triple casements. Above again, tile
hung gable with 5 light casement. South east garden front has to
left, hipped corner tower, 2 stages, and central canted 2 storey
bay window with conical roof. Central French window flanked by
single casements, all with notable stained glass overlight.
Beyond, single casements. Above, bay window with casements. To
right, cross casement. Above again, to right, hood gabled
dormer. North east front has to left, 3 storey canted bay window
with conical roof. 3 casements. To its right, projecting
catslide roof on curved brackets with pargetted infill. To right
again, 2 casements. Above, bay has leaded casements on each
floor. To right, C20 fire door flanked by single casements.
Above, central square tower, 90 ft. high, with moulded string
course and parapet. On each side, 2 mullioned casements. Timber
framed lantern stage has shaped leaded lights each side,
pyramidal roof and large wind vane. Lower, gabled service wing
and stable yard to north-west have irregular fenestration with
sashes and casements. West side has tile hung gabled carriage
entrance with double gates. Principal rooms have panelled dados
and chair rails, dentillated doorcases and panelled plaster
ceilings. Dining room has keystoned marble fireplace with tiled
opening and pargetted overmantel on curved brackets. Several
keystoned ashlar fireplaces and tiled corner fireplace. Dogleg
principal stair has stair window with stained glass panels.
Tower has spiral stair, 2 stages, with iron brackets. Kitchen
has moulded collar purlin roof. Outside, garden wall, C-plan
pierced design made from semi-circular terracotta components.
This building is the most important of those designed by Godwin
and erected on the Greasley estate in 1871-1878. It is a
noteworthy early example of the Old English Revival style,
pioneered by Godwin and widely adopted during the 1870s, for
example in Bedford Park.

Listing NGR: SK4855249161

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547476

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