Beaumanor Hall, Woodhouse (Grade II*)

Mansion of 1842-53 by William Railton for W Perry Herrick. Red brick in Jacobean style of highest quality workmanship outside and in. Stone dressings, plinth, band, frieze and dentilled cornice, and parapet coping. Carved and pierced stone balustrade panels in part as well as urns between stone coped Dutch gables. Plain tile roof and tall brick stacks in clusters of several flues with partly carved stone bases, banding and tops. Two storeys and attic of mullion and transom sash windows with stone surrounds and architraves. Symmetrical entrance front of three large gables, the central projecting slightly. Here a round arched doorway with rusticated stone surround. The keystone is the pendant of half round stone oriel window above. A 3 light both floors either side and a 5 light with 4 light above in side gables. A 2 light in attics. Five stone steps lead up to pair of richly carved oak doors. Subsidiary range to right of 3