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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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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Official list entry

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

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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

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Legacy System number:: 432230
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.