Hilton Hall, Gate Piers Forecourt Wall
HILTON HALL, GATE PIERS FORECOURT WALL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1163219
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hilton Hall, Gate Piers Forecourt Wall
- Statutory Address:
- HILTON HALL, GATE PIERS FORECOURT WALL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1163219
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hilton Hall, Gate Piers Forecourt Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILTON HALL, GATE PIERS FORECOURT WALL, 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:
- HILTON HALL, GATE PIERS FORECOURT WALL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hilton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 29088 66366
Details
HILTON HIGH STREET 1. 5140 (south side) Hilton Hall, gate piers and forecourt wall TL 26 NE 9/20 24.10.51 II* 2. Early C17, T-plan house with C18 facade. Red brick, formerly colour-washed. Old tile roof with parapet and parapet gables. Projecting end stacks with recessed panels. Three-storeys. Second and first-floors are basically a three window range of hung sashes with glazing bars recessed in segmental headed arches, with flanking blind openings at first-floor. Band course between first and ground-floors. Ground-floor has pair of hung sashes flanked by blind openings on each side of central, modern two panelled door with glazed upper half. Interior has fine early C17 staircase of six flights (RCHM Item 4). Moulded beams with elaborately decorated stops, and C18 panelling in hall. Modern single-storey extension to rear has C18 panelling, removed from Park Farm, Hilton, now demolished. C18 low wall and two square section, red brick gate piers to forecourt. Piers with ball finials. Wrought iron gates, dated 1845. (RCHM Huntingdonshire Mon 4 p 139).
Listing NGR: TL2908866366
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54022
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 139
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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