Hill House

Hill House, 99 Frenchgate, Richmond, DL10 7AN

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1260753
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: Hill House
Statutory Address:: Hill House, 99 Frenchgate, Richmond, DL10 7AN

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Date:: 2001-07-03
Reference:: IOE01/04983/35
Rights:: © Mr Ray Wallace Thompson. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1260753
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: Hill House
Statutory Address 1:: Hill House, 99 Frenchgate, Richmond, DL10 7AN

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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Hill House, 99 Frenchgate, Richmond, DL10 7AN

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Richmond
National Grid Reference:: NZ 17444 01307

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 May 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards

NZ 1701 SW 3/205

FRENCHGATE (North Side) No 99 (Hill House)

(Formerly listed as POTTERGATE (North Side) Hill House (Three dwellings))

1.8.52.

GV II*

Very fine C18-frontage on earlier house. C17 gable visible at side. Two storeys, rough rendered. Seven windows. Centre part of three windows breaks forward slightly under parapet with two stone finials, with moulded band in place of cornice. Window frames of moulded stone with moulded cills. Central door in similar frame, pulvinated frieze and modillion cornice. The ground floor windows (except for right wing) have been converted in late C18 to three large Venetian style windows with Ionic mullions. One-storey later addition to the left. Rear wing in courtyard of early C18. New range of dormers. Three windows, plain stone surrounds, one blocked window. Two doors in moulded stone surrounds with triple keystone. Notable as the home of Frances L'Anson, the "Lass of Richmond Hill" in whose honour the song was composed.

Oglethorpe House, No 97 (Clyde House), Hill House, Gates, Gate Piers and Wall to Hill House form a group

Listing NGR: NZ1744401307

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Legacy System number:: 439580
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.