Hindlip Hall

Details

SO 85 NE HINDLIP CP -

7/7 Hindlip Hall

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GV II*

Country house, now Police headquarters (West Mercia Constabulary). Early C19, with late C19 and mid-C20 alterations and additions. Cream-coloured brick with ashlar dressings, part slate, part copper roofing, massive brick chimneys. Symmetrical composition in Greek Revival style; main rectangular block, 3 storeys, 5 bays, flanked by projecting wings attached by overlapping pavilions. Main art: 3 storeys plus mid-C20 attic storey with copper-sheeted sides and flat roof behind parapet; sill band beneath first floor windows. 1:3:1 bays; giant pilasters at ends, central 3 bays break forward with pediment; all windows have moulded architraves; first floor windows are glazing bar sashes, 9-pane sashes on second floor and 5 casements in attic storey; ground floor windows of outer bays are full length 15-pane sashes with architrave and cornice above; at centre is a blind tetrastyle Ionic portico with cast iron columns within which is a central doorway with flanking windows, all round- headed with console-shaped keyblocks, imposts and all having barred segmental fanlights; the windows are multi-paned casements and there are part-glazed double doors; each side are large, elliptical windows, similarly detailed; a string course runs beneath sill level. Pavilions: late C19 replacing original quadrants. Pyramidal-roofed; 2 storeys with sill band beneath first floor windows; balustraded parapet at the centre of which is carved the coat of arms of the Allsopp family on the left pavilion and the crest of the West Mercia Constabulary on the right pavilion. Three bays; all windows are 4-pane sashes with moulded architraves; the central ground floor windows have an architrave and cornice above and in the left one is an inserted C20 door. Wings: also of 2 storeys but lower in height; band between storeys and low parapet to hipped roofs. Three bays; ground floor has 3 blind, round-headed archways with impost band; all windows have gauged flat heads; left wing has glazing bar sashes inserted in the archways, & 9-pane first floor sashes; right wing has a C20 casement in the left archway, a central glazing bar sash, and 2 first floor C20 casements, and the right end bay obscured by a later extension. Garden elevation to south: main art: 3 storeys and attic with band and parapet as front; 1:3:1 bays with pilasters at main bay divisions. Outer ground floor bays have canted bay windows; all windows have moulded architraves; ground floor has 15-pane full length sashes except for windows at sides of canted bays which have 10 panes; glazing bar sashes at first flour level, 9-pane sashes on the second floor; and 5 casements in the attic storey; central doorway has multi-paned door; moulded parapet between scrolls above central 3 bays. Side wings now much altered and extended. Interior: main ground floor rooms have moulded cornices and doorheads. Entrance hall has 2 Ionic columns with flanking antae. Open well staircase to right front of main part with wrought iron balusters and moulded handrail. A timber-framed manor house originally occupied site, replaced in 1572 by a large brick building. This was destroyed by fire in 1820 and the present structure was built for Viscount Southwell. He died in 1860 and the house was sold to Henry Allsopp, a brewery magnate, made first Baron Hindlip in 1886 and who undertook the pavilion alterations. In the early C20 the Allsopp family moved to Wiltshire and the estate was sold to Worcestershire County Council in 1947. It has been the headquarters of the West Mercia Constabulary since 1967. [A S Maund: The History of Hindlip, (West Mercia Constabulary publication 1983)].

Listing NGR: SO8811658565

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Sources

Books and journals
Maund, A S, The History of Hindlip, (1983)

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