Hinxton Hall (Tube Investment Limited)
HINXTON HALL (TUBE INVESTMENT LIMITED), HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330969
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hinxton Hall (Tube Investment Limited)
- Statutory Address:
- HINXTON HALL (TUBE INVESTMENT LIMITED), HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330969
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hinxton Hall (Tube Investment Limited)
- Statutory Address 1:
- HINXTON HALL (TUBE INVESTMENT LIMITED), HIGH 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:
- HINXTON HALL (TUBE INVESTMENT LIMITED), HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hinxton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 49803 44824
Details
TL 44 SE HINXTON HIGH STREET (South Side) 6/166 Hinxton Hall (Tube 22.11.67 Investments Ltd) GV II* Country house. 1748-1756 for John Bromwell Jones; late C18 additions by William Vachell; early and mid C19 alterations and early C20 additions. Red brick tuck pointed, with gauged brick window dressings and moulded limestone details. Lead and corrugated steel roofs. Original central block of three storeys and basement (noted by Wm Cole) with two late C18 two storey wings and screen walls; service wing to south. West elevation: Symmetrical facade of five 'bays' with projecting wings of three 'bays'. C19 fluted Greek Doric portico with six-panelled door and patterned rectangular fanlight. Late C18 rusticated stone plinth continued to side of steps, shaped with moulded edges. Stone band between ground and first floors and cornice band, panelled brick parapet with side stacks. Ten ground floor and eleven similar first floor twelve-paned recessed hung sash windows with painted reveals, nine-paned second floor windows. Garden elevation: Central block of five 'bays' divided by four giant Corinthian pilasters from first floor. Central bay with carved stone architraves to first and second floor windows and with Ionic pilasters to garden entrance with rusticated reveals; a stone apron has a relief carving of a trout. C19 garden door replacement. Fanned key stones to eighteen-paned and twelve-paned ground and first floor hung sash windows; nine-paned second floor windows with honeysuckle and dentil enrichment to stone cornice. Stone steps form terrace. Wings treated as pavillions each with pedimented parapets and pair of full height round headed garden hung sash windows; balustered parapets to side walls and screens with pair of round windows, (two parapet urns survive). Interior details. C18 open String staircase with four balusters to each tread. Fine late C18 or early C19 chimney pieces of French Rococo and Empire designs; plastered cornices and colonade to hall. Wall paintings in drawing room copied from antique paintings in Herculeneum and Pompeii recorded in c.1950 (R.C.H.M.) and now covered with exception of two panels. Mid C19 plastered ceilings and painted panels. Double doors with over mantels to south lobby entrance now sealed but possibly originally a house entry from a side carriage way. R.C.H.M. Reports. 1951, 54 V.C.H., Vol. VI, p224 Pevsner: Buildings of England
Listing NGR: TL4980344824
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52979
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 224
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954)
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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