Horton House Including Garden Boundary Wall to North East and South East
HORTON HOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN BOUNDARY WALL TO NORTH EAST AND SOUTH EAST, 6 AND 6A, HILLMORTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250020
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Horton House Including Garden Boundary Wall to North East and South East
- Statutory Address:
- HORTON HOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN BOUNDARY WALL TO NORTH EAST AND SOUTH EAST, 6 AND 6A, HILLMORTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250020
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Horton House Including Garden Boundary Wall to North East and South East
- Statutory Address 1:
- HORTON HOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN BOUNDARY WALL TO NORTH EAST AND SOUTH EAST, 6 AND 6A, HILLMORTON ROAD
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:
- HORTON HOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN BOUNDARY WALL TO NORTH EAST AND SOUTH EAST, 6 AND 6A, HILLMORTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Rugby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP5057774905
Details
In the entry for RUGBY HILLMORTON ROAD
4/76
No 6 (Horton House)
including Garden Boundary
Wall to North East and
South East.
The address shall be amended to read: HILLMORTON ROAD
Nos 6 and 6A (Horton
House) including Garden
Boundary Wall to North
East and South East.
The list was amended in respect of this entry on 12 November 1990.
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RUGBY HILLMORTON ROAD
SP 5074 NE
4/76 No 6 (Horton House)
including Garden Boundary Wall
to North East and South East
II GV
House. Mid C19. Red brick with blue brick diapering and stone dressings. Steeply-
pitched plain tile roof with bands of fishscale shaped tiles and gable ends with
ornate pierced bargeboards, pendants and finials. Large axial, gable end and
lateral multi-flue stacks with diagonal shafts with star caps. Central stairhall
plan and with service rooms on right (west). Victorian Gothic style. Two storeys
and attic. Asymmetrical north front with projecting gable to left of centre with
gabled porch with 4-centred arch stone doorway and arms above. To left of gable a
large lateral stack, to right 2 windows, 4-centred arch service door and short
gabled wing. South garden front asymmetrical 6-window range, gable to left and
projecting gable to right, the latter with stone canted bay window with crenellated
parapet. East end: gable end.of front range to right and large lateral stack on
left. All 1, 2 and 3-light stone mullion windows with sashes. Including garden
boundary wall to north-east and south-east, contemporary with house, red brick with
blue brick diapering, saddle-back coping, flat buttresses, gate-piers with
cross-gabled stone caps and C20 gates.
Interior: Much of the original joinery survives, including panelled doors, window
shutters and a large open-well staircase with octagonal newels with finials and
pendants, moulded and stick balusters and panelled dado. Moulded plaster ceiling
cornices and light roses.
Note: Horton House was the home of William Sharp FRS (1805-1896), Surgeon and
Physician. Practised until 1843 in Bradford where he was Surgeon to the infirmary.
Reader in natural philosophy 1849-1850 at Rugby School, where he helped to establish
science teaching. Adopted homoeopathy and did medical research.
Source: Dictionary of National Biography.
Listing NGR: SP5057774905
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432230
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Concise Dictionary of National Biography, (1939)
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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