Hinton House
Hinton House
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1136140
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Hinton House
- Statutory Address:
- Hinton House
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1136140
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Hinton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Hinton 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.
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 House
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hinton Charterhouse
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 77516 58380
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/04/2020
ST 75 NE
11/118
HINTON CHARTERHOUSE
Hinton House
1.2.56
GV
II*
Country house, now with three service flats. Circa 1700, altered later in C18; altered and enlarged in 1947-1950s by Manners and Gill of Bath. Ashlar with hipped slate roof behind a balustraded parapet with pedestals; urns on the end pedestals; moulded eaves cornice and ashlar stacks.
Two storeys, on a moulded plinth and attics. Two:three:two bays with French quoins at the ends. The centre three bays are slightly advanced and surmounted by a pediment which has a central oval plaque. Glazing bar sash windows in moulded architraves under arabesque decorated friezes, and pediments on the ground floor (alternate ones are open); moulded cills on brackets. Central panelled door; Ionic porch with open pediment and central cartouche moved from the east elevation in the 1850s. Two windows with eighteen-pane, thick glazing bar sash windows and in bolection moulded surrounds on west elevation. Set back two storey, two bay wing at left with a conservatory extending from it: the conservatory has a six-bay arcade of Tuscan columns, glazed doors under fanlights, moulded and coped parapet. The east side of the house was the original front: two:six:two bays, the outer parts being c.1700 and having blocked glazing bar sash windows in bolection moulded surrounds. The six-bay centre of the 1850s has French quoins and glazing bar sash windows in moulded architraves and under decorative friezes and pediments. Four-bay service wing to north.
Interior: mostly mid-C19 but some late C18 plasterwork survives. Large open staircase with decorative cast-iron balustrade and square lantern.
The house is thought to occupy the site of a monastic grange and to have been first constructed in 1701.
Listing NGR: ST7751658380
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32520
- 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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