EAST GATEWAY TO HILLINGTON HALL WITH ATTACHED WALL AND BRIDGE OVER THE BABINGLEY RIVER

BRIDGE OVER THE BABINGLEY RIVER AT TF 728 262

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1168624
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: EAST GATEWAY TO HILLINGTON HALL WITH ATTACHED WALL AND BRIDGE OVER THE BABINGLEY RIVER
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE OVER THE BABINGLEY RIVER AT TF 728 262

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1168624
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: EAST GATEWAY TO HILLINGTON HALL WITH ATTACHED WALL AND BRIDGE OVER THE BABINGLEY RIVER
Statutory Address 1:: BRIDGE OVER THE BABINGLEY RIVER AT TF 728 262
Statutory Address 2:: EAST GATEWAY TO HILLINGTON HALL WITH ATTACHED WALL AND BRIDGE OVER THE BABINGLEY RIVER, FLITCHAM ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BRIDGE OVER THE BABINGLEY RIVER AT TF 728 262
Statutory Address:: EAST GATEWAY TO HILLINGTON HALL WITH ATTACHED WALL AND BRIDGE OVER THE BABINGLEY RIVER, FLITCHAM ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Norfolk
District:: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Hillington
National Grid Reference:: TF7279226216

Details

HILLINGTON FLITCHAM ROAD TF 72 NW 3/30 East gateway to Hillington Hall with attached wall and bridge over the Babingley River II Gateway, c1824, by W.J. Donthorne, carstone with Sandringham sandstone dressings; Gothick style; irregular plan, central archway, single storey bay to south, 3-storeyed octagonal turret to north. East facade to road: 4-centred limestone arch with ffolkes arms in stone above. Embattled stepped gable parapet with string course over arch, open work gates to arch in wood and iron. South bay with blocked 2-light mullioned Gothick window, embattled parapet and string course; clasping octagonal buttresses with embattled parapets to south angles in Sandringham sandstone. 3 storeyed octagonal tower to right of arch with embattled parapet having string course with grotesques, 2-light Gothick windows to south-east and north-east of ground floor, and to east face of 1st and 2nd floor. Rear: archway as to east facade without shield, plain parapet to south bay and to projection in front of north tower. Double lights to south and north. Interior: ruinous at time of survey, north tower floorless, fireplace to east wall of ground floor, doors with Gothick panels; copper to fireplace of south room. Attached wall to north of small carstone with brick coping. Attached road bridge over the Babingley river in carstone with brick coping, canted splays, stepped embattled parapets, central limestone plaque on east parapet showing boundary between Flitcham Parish and Hillington Parish, limestone shield on west parapet with ffolkes fleur de lys; low arches in brick.

Listing NGR: TF7279226216

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Legacy System number:: 222140
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.