Hill House Nursing Home Including Front Wall and Gate Piers
HILL HOUSE NURSING HOME INCLUDING FRONT WALL AND GATE PIERS, 22, HORSEPOOL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210005
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Hill House Nursing Home Including Front Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- HILL HOUSE NURSING HOME INCLUDING FRONT WALL AND GATE PIERS, 22, HORSEPOOL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210005
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Hill House Nursing Home Including Front Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL HOUSE NURSING HOME INCLUDING FRONT WALL AND GATE PIERS, 22, HORSEPOOL 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:
- HILL HOUSE NURSING HOME INCLUDING FRONT WALL AND GATE PIERS, 22, HORSEPOOL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brixham
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 91819 55306
Details
BRIXHAM
SX9155 HORSEPOOL STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/6/114 (West side) 10/01/75 No.22 Hill House Nursing Home including front wall and gate piers (Formerly Listed as: HORSEPOOL STREET, Higher Brixham (West side) Hill House and Hill Cottage)
GV II
Detached house, now nursing home. C16 or C17, altered C17/C18 and mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Tiled roof with crested ridge-tiles. 3 old red-brick chimneys on main range to right. Small rendered chimney on left end wall of secondary range to left. Large stone rubble chimney on rear wall of main range. Plan: Main range with rear wing to left. Shorter secondary range abutting left end wall of main range. Exterior: 2 storeys. Main range 6 windows wide. Doorway at left end of ground storey; trellised wood porch; 6-panelled door, the 2 bottom panels flush; panelled reveals. Windows have wood and iron casements. The latter are of 3 and 4 lights with leaded glazing; they occupy all the ground-storey windows, also the first second-storey window on the left and the first 2 on the right. Wood casements are of 2 lights with 4 panes per light. Deep flat eaves-cornice on paired brackets. Secondary range is 3 windows wide. Small-paned wood casements in ground and upper storeys; the 2 right-hand upper-storey windows have gables with plain bargeboards. Subsidiary features: Front garden has old stone rubble retaining wall with 2 square rendered gate piers having flat moulded caps. At right-hand end the wall turns up Mathill Road, in front of the end wall of the house; this section has a chamfered coping of stones on edge. INTERIOR: Chamfered ceiling beams; early C18 staircase with fluted columns has been truncated and a small section survives on ground floor only; 1587 fireback in sitting room; fragments of plank muntin screen. Roof has been raised, trusses of an eighteenth-century character.
Listing NGR: SX9181955306
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383636
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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