Hinton Admiral House
HINTON ADMIRAL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1095030
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Hinton Admiral House
- Statutory Address:
- HINTON ADMIRAL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1095030
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Hinton Admiral House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HINTON ADMIRAL HOUSE
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:
- HINTON ADMIRAL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- New Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bransgore
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 20853 95944
Details
SZ 29 NW BRANSGORE HINTON PARK
12/9 Hinton Admiral House 30.9.64 GV I Medium-sized country house. 1720 for Sir P Mews, remodelled after fire 1777, remodelled and enlarged by H E Peto in 1905. Brick, stone dressings, and ashlar to centre 3 bays, plain tile roof. Plan of 2 storey on raised basement, 7 bay main block, added, slightly lower, set-back, 3 bay wings at each end; from corners on entrance side, quadrant colonnades to 2 storey, 13 bay pavilion wings set at right angles, behind each a courtyard, one of just walls, other of low service buildings. Entrance front has wide flight of 8 steps in front of centre 3 bays. End 2 bays have 6-pane window in basement. Centre 3 bays ashlar faced with giant Composite pilasters and pediment. Large central 6-panel double doors under fanlight in architrave. Two bays each side and above arched-head sashes in architraves. End 2 bays have 12-pane sashes in architraves. 1st floor band right across. Moulded cornice and parapet each side of pediment. Behind tall hipped roof. Stacks each side of pediment. Added bays have full-height arched recess to centre bay containing large tripartite stone window and over 6-pane sash, and other bays have 1st floor 6-pane sashes. Cornice and parapet broken in centre by balustrade. In front of these bays, 7 arch quadrant colonnades, that to LH free- standing, that to RH has passage built behind with French windows in arches, running from corner of original house to corner of pavilion wings. Wings have arcaded ground floor, over 9-pane sashes and low parapet in front of hipped roof. Behind LH wing is service courtyard of C18 and C20 outbuildings, beyond are walled gardens (qv). Behind RH wing is Laundry courtyard of brick walls, one C17, stone piers and wrought-iron gates, and from house end of wing top-lit billiard room projection. That end of main house altered C20 when ground floor became ballroom; a full-height shallow bow was added with stone perron staircases up to it. Interior late C18, but much remodelled by H E Peto in early C18 style. Country Life: 1910; p494-8.
Listing NGR: SZ2088095966
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 143564
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 21 May, (1910), 494-8
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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