Hilton Hall
HILTON HALL, HILTON VILLAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121804
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Hilton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HILTON HALL, HILTON VILLAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121804
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Hilton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILTON HALL, HILTON VILLAGE
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:
- HILTON HALL, HILTON VILLAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hilton
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 16734 21771
Details
HILTON HILTON VILLAGE NZ 12 SE (South side) 10/44 Hilton Hall 14/9/66
II*
House; said to be chapel of St. Catherine, chantry to Staindrop church, and so may be chapel and priest's house. Medieval with C17 and C18 alterations. Limewashed render with ashlar dressings; concrete-tiled roof with stone gable copings and brick chimneys. Irregular plan: L-plan main block, with front stair wing and extruded porch; left extension and porch; rear right wing. North elevation of 2 storeys, 4 bays, with one-storey, one-bay left extension, has 6-panel door in Gothic-style surround in second-bay porch; boarded door at left of fourth bay; tripartite sashes in first bay and at landing level of full-height gabled stair wing in third bay; late C19 sash over porch; 4-pane pantry light low in stair wing at right; partly-blocked horizontal sliding sash in slightly low fourth bay with blank first floor. Roll-moulded gabled angle buttresses, with coped off-sets, at left of main block. Steeply-pitched roof has moulded kneelers and corniced ridge chimneys, the left at end on massive rendered plinth. Rear and return elevations also have gabled buttresses.
Interior: chamfered surround to 6-panel door within porch; walls c.130 cm. thick form principal rectangle and flank cross-passage from second-bay door; right return has similar wall continuing along rear wing. Cupboard in second bay front wall has very wide run-off chamfer at one side; narrow window openings reported to be behind wall-paper in third bay front wall, the exterior obscured by stair wing. First bay reported to have stone bowl, possibly piscina, below window-sill on north wall. Right rear wing has plastered beams with moulded corners; stucco ceiling decoration on both floors, with formal arrangement in ovals of separate motifs of fleur-de-lys, lions, crowns and leaves; upper room has Tudor rose and large marigold patterns; early C18 corniced panelled wall containing chimney piece in ground-floor room. Thick cross walls continue to roof space. Blocked C17 2-light windows show inside rear wing. Open-well close-string stair has flat handrail on fat turned balusters, and square newels with pendants and ball finials. Probably C17 roof of upper crucks with collars and 2 levels of purlins; spurs removed; ridge piece on crossed, halved blades.
Listing NGR: NZ1673421771
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111409
- 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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