Bilton Hall
BILTON HALL, CHURCH WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1035049
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Bilton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BILTON HALL, CHURCH WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1035049
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Bilton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BILTON HALL, CHURCH WALK
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BILTON HALL, CHURCH WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Rugby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 48722 73756
Details
CHURCH WALK 1. 5397 (South Side) Bilton Bilton Hall SP 4873 NE 7/2 11.10.49.
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2. Mainly 1623 incorporating some C16 fabric. Red brick with sandstone dressings. Built for Edward Boughton of Lawford (monument in Newbold Church). 2 storeys and attics. 3 bay north block, gabled on left, has central gabled porch with 4 centred arch under later panel with interlocking triangles. Casement windows with mullions and transoms. Much altered section on right. West block at right angles has heraldic panel in gable end. In angle between blocks a tower-like projection gabled on 2 sides with finials and kneelers. East garden front altered. Said to contain C18 staircase and panelling. Joseph Addison, poet and essayist, lived here 1711-19; his widow, the Countess of Warwick, died here 1731. VCH, VI, pp 30-32. See also Peter Smithers, The Life Of Joseph Addison, pp 256-9 and 318-21.
Listing NGR: SP4872273756
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308451
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1951), 30-32
Smithers, P, The Life of Joseph Addison, (), 256-9
Smithers, P, The Life of Joseph Addison, (), 318-21
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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