Hill House

HILL HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1059046
Date first listed:
29-Mar-1963
List Entry Name:
Hill House
Statutory Address:
HILL HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1059046
Date first listed:
29-Mar-1963
Date of most recent amendment:
24-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:
Hill House
Statutory Address 1:
HILL HOUSE

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HILL HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Otterhampton
National Grid Reference:
ST 25043 42755

Details

ST24SE OTTERHAMPTON CP

4/80 Hill House (formerly listed as Hill House [St Hilda's Girls School]) 29.3.63

- II

Marked on OS map as Pikestock School. Country house, now religious retreat. Mid C18 for Everard family. Coursed and squared rubble, roughcast, plinth band, moulded strings at sill levels, plain band at first floor level, moulded cornice, parapet with plain coping, felted roof, brick stacks. Symmetrical garden frontage; two storeys and attics, 2:1:2 bays, 12-pane sash windows, centre bay breaks forward under an open pediment, first floor window with an emphasised dressed stone surround, moulded stone cornice on brackets; below the window an heraldic achievement. Central Venetian door-opening in a moulded stone surround a pilaster between each unit, 8-pane sash to each side, central half-glazed door, fanlight, emphasised keystone, above the whole a cornice. Shallow 2-storey segmental bow-window to each return, sash windows with glazing bars, crenellated parapets. Elaborate plaster ceiling in the Adam style to left ground floor room; fireplace to right ground floor room in an early C19 fluted marble surround; hall with a screen of columns; co-eval staircase; further fine co-eval fireplaces to first floor. Outbuildings and C20 alterations to rear not of special interest.

Listing NGR: ST2504342755

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
268926
Legacy System:
LBS

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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