The Hill
THE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293558
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1977
- List Entry Name:
- The Hill
- Statutory Address:
- THE HILL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293558
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1977
- List Entry Name:
- The Hill
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HILL
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:
- THE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorpe Mandeville
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 51672 44893
Details
THORPE MANDEVILLE SP54SW 7/227 The Hill 14/10/77
GV II
House. 1898-8. Built as hunting lodge for J. Hope Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak by C.F.A. Voysey. Pebbledash walls, tile roof, pebbledash stacks. 2 storeys and attic, 3 bays. Buttresses at angles and between 2 right bays. 2 storey porch in second bay from left has doorway with stone lintel and studded plank door with ornamental hinges. 9-light wood-mullioned window above with lights around 3 sides of porch. Small one-light casement windows on either side. 4-light bay window to left with wood mullions, similar window in second bay from right. 5-light bay window to right. 4-light windows with wood mullions in right bay and second bay from right on first floor. Hipped roof with wide eaves. 2 straight headed dormers flanking stacks. Wall screening kitchen courtyard projects between two right bays on main front. Pebbledash with tiled coping; 2 doorways with arched heads and plank doors. Interior: Original fireplaces have been removed and main staircase altered. Rear staircase, unaltered, has continuous newel posts. Voyseys preliminary designs are preserved (R.I.B.A. London). (D. Gebhard, Voysey, Los Angeles, 1975, p.26; Joanna Symonds Catalogue of the Drawings of C.F.R. Voysey in the Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 197b, p.43).
Listing NGR: SP5167244893
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234500
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gebhard, D, Charles FA Voysey Architect, (1979)
Symonds, J, Catalogue of the Drawings of CFA Voysey in the Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, (1976), 43
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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