Elton Hall
ELTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081768
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Elton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ELTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081768
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Elton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELTON HALL
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:
- ELTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Elton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO4579671044
Details
ELTON CP
ELTON
SO 47 SE
4/31
11.6.59
Elton Hall
GV
II
House. Cl7 or earlier origins, partly rebuilt and refronted mid-C18;
restored late C20. Part finely jointed handmade brick, part rubble;
partly hipped plain tiled roofs with two brick ridge stacks and large
brick end stacks with offsets. Two storeys, cellar and attic with
dormers; moulded timber eaves cornice to front elevation. Six bays;
there is a gable above the central two bays; windows on main floors all
have ogee-arched 12-pane sashes beneath cambered heads. There are four
C20 gabled dormers with 2-light casements and a C20 circular window within
the central gable. The central entrance is flanked by narrow 8-pane sashes
similarly detailed to the main windows. It has an open pediment, pilasters,
panelled reveals and soffit, a door with six raised and fielded panels and
a barred segmental fanlight. At the rear of the main front range are three
brick wings and a substantial rubble north-east wing possibly of Cl7 origin
and linked to the stables (qv) by a C20 single-storey addition. Interior:
there is an open well staircase with turned balusters and moulded and
wreathed handrail to the rear of the main block and also a small section of
C18 panelling in the entrance hall. There are recorded to be some Cl7 or
possibly medieval timbers surviving in the main building and the north-east
wing. The house formerly belonged to Andrew Knight, brother of Richard
Payne Knight, who built Downton Castle (qv) nearby. Andrew Knight was a
founder and, for 27 years, president of the Horticultural Society and he
experimented in raising new varieties of fruit at Elton. In 1809 he left
Elton to live at Downton Castle. (Country Life,XLii, 60, p 36-42; RCHM
Herefs, Vol III, p 57; BoE, p 127-8).
Listing NGR: SO4579671044
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150210
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 57
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 127-128
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 60, (1917), 36-42
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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