Little Clarendon
LITTLE CLARENDON, HINDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1146116
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Little Clarendon
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE CLARENDON, HINDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1146116
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Little Clarendon
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE CLARENDON, HINDON ROAD
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:
- LITTLE CLARENDON, HINDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dinton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 01474 31568
Details
SU 03 SW DINTON HINDON ROAD (north side) 1/150 Little Clarendon 23.3.60 GV II* Detached house. Late C16, altered C17 and restored early C20 by George Engleheart. Rubble stone, tiled roof with hip to left and diagonally-set stone stacks. Former hall house with cross wing. Two-storey and attic, 4-window front. Two-storey gabled porch to left of centre has Tudor-arched doorway and pointed moulded inner doorway, single lights to side walls, upper floor has 2-light ovolo-mullioned casement and square sundial, ground floor to left has 3-light ovolo-mullioned casement with hoodmould, 4-light to right with hoodmould. First floor has raised eaves in stone with 3-light mullioned casement with hoodmoulds. Cross wing to right has 2-light mullioned casement facing west, front has 4-light mullioned casements to ground and first floors, 3-light mullioned casement to attic and blocked light over. Left return has 4-light ovolo-mullioned casement to ground and first floors, single-storey wing to rear has leaded casement and 2-light mullioned casement, 1920s attic dormer with leaded casements. Rear of east wing has 2- light ovolo-mullioned casements with hoodmoulds to three floors and square stair turret with 2-light mullioned casements and gabled roof attached to west side, rear of main range has Tudor-arched doorway and 4-light mullioned casement to hall, 3-light to first floor. Single-storey wing to west, rebuilt 1920s with chamfered mullioned casements and hipped dormers to attic, leaded casements to north gable. Interior: Entry from porch into hall; deep chamfered beam with stepped stops, Tudor-arched stone fireplace, wainscot panelled dado. Good wain-scot door to dining room has arabesque-carved frieze to architrave. East room has moulded cross beams and Tudor- arched stone fireplace, north east study in wing has deep chamfered beam, newel stairs with chamfered square newel in turret. First floor has Tudor-arched stone fireplaces in bedrooms, doors with 4 or 6 fielded panels, good wainscot panelled door to attic with rosette frieze, 4-bay collar roof over main range, probably Cl7. A C16 house, probably altered including raised eaves, in late C17. House acquired by Henry Hayter, formerly at Clarendon Park in 1697. George Engleheart was a daffodil grower who bought the house 1901 and developed new types of bulb whilst at Little Clarendon. (Country Life, 17 December 1943)
Listing NGR: SU0147431568
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 320736
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 17 December, (1943)
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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