Hildersham Hall
HILDERSHAM HALL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1161818
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Hildersham Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HILDERSHAM HALL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1161818
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Hildersham Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILDERSHAM HALL, HIGH STREET
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:
- HILDERSHAM HALL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hildersham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 54279 48339
Details
TL 5448 HILDERSHAM HIGH STREET (North-West Side)
12/60 Hildersham Hall 17. 3.78 II*
Country house. c.1807 by E Lapidge (1793-1860) for T Fasset, including C17 and C18 ranges of a former farmhouse in the rear wing. Timber-framed, stuccoed brick and C19 red brick. Low pitched hipped slated roofs. Two storeys and attics, rectangular plan of five and three 'bays' with north-east rear wing. Main, west facing elevation, symmetrical, with five unequal 'bays', three central 'bays' slightly project with a portico and balcony above. Portico raised on limestone steps with panelled corner piers and unfluted Ionic columns. Three French casements with slender horizontal glazing bars, shaped to segmental heads of moulded architraves. Two recessed twelve-paned hung sash windows with flat arches in 'bays' on each side, five similar but smaller first floor windows. Moulded band between floors and below eaves cornice; boarded eaves. Two symmetrical stacks, and rear stacks. Main entrance in south elevation with a flat roofed porch, corner piers and pilasters on the inner face of the opening. Double doors similar in detail to west facade but glazed and panelled. Two storey C19 canted bay window to right hand. Interior: Original plan complete. Openings in staircase hall and vestibule reflected and balanced in segmental blind arches on opposing walls; fine canted, geometric staircase lit by an oval glass lantern, panelled dining room, moulded ceiling borders and friezes, pine chimney piece with laurel leaf swag. Thomas Fasset laid out the park with an ornamental lake c.1810. The house was possibly built on the site of Nether Hall manor house, one of two manors in Hildersham.
VCH Vol VI p 60, 63 Colvin English Architects p 356 Pevsner. Building of England p 407
Listing NGR: TL5427948339
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51873
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 60
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 63
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1600-1840, (1954), 356
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 407
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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