Hill Farmhouse
HILL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040921
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HILL FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05865/23
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040921
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL FARMHOUSE
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:
- HILL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Abthorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 66058 47268
Details
ABTHORPE FOSCOTE SP64NE 6/2 Hill Farmhouse 01/12/51
GV II
Farmhouse. c.1840. Coursed squared ironstone to main block, red brick (English bond) to wings, hipped slate roofs, brick internal stacks. U-plan. 2-storey, 3-window range. Central double-leaf part-glazed door with panelled reveals and painted limestone surround with Doric half-columns supporting entablature with triglyphs and metopes. 16-pane sash windows to ground and first floor windows with flat-arched heads. Deep overhanging eaves. 2-storey wings to rear have 2- and 3-light casement windows with segmental-arched heads. Interior not inspected. One of a umber of model farms built for the 4th Duke of Grafton 1839-44. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.75; The Northamptonshire Landscape, J. Steane, 1974, p.240-1).
Listing NGR: SP6605847268
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235020
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 75
Steane, J, The Northamptonshire Landscape, (1974), 240-1
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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