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WARREN HASTINGS HOUSE AND HASTINGS HILL HOUSE

HASTINGS HILL HOUSE, HASTINGS HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367791
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1957
List Entry Name:: WARREN HASTINGS HOUSE AND HASTINGS HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HASTINGS HILL HOUSE, HASTINGS HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367791
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1957
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-May-1989
List Entry Name:: WARREN HASTINGS HOUSE AND HASTINGS HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HASTINGS HILL HOUSE, HASTINGS HILL
Statutory Address 2:: WARREN HASTINGS HOUSE, HASTINGS HILL

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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Location

Statutory Address:: HASTINGS HILL HOUSE, HASTINGS HILL
Statutory Address:: WARREN HASTINGS HOUSE, HASTINGS HILL

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Churchill
National Grid Reference:: SP2822524333

Details

CHURCHILL HASTINGS HILL SP2824-2924 (North side) 16/57 Warren Hastings House and Hastings Hill House (Formerly listed as Warren Hastings' House and House 27.8.57 adjoining Warren Hastings' House)

GV II

Pair of houses. Late C17, possibly incorporating parts of an earlier building, remodelled early C18 with later additions and alterations. Roughly coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins; concrete tile roofs to Warren Hastings House, stone slates to Hastings Hill House, both with coped verges. Warren Hastings House. 2 storeys and attic. Road front has C20 leaded casement replacing glazing bar sash in plain stone surround with keystone to each floor; gabled dormer directly above in roof slope. Late C19 memorial plaque to left on first floor reads "WARREN HASTINGS/WAS BORN IN THIS HOUSE/DEC.6 1732/DIED/AUG.22 1818". Integral ashlar end stacks, right with moulded dripstone and capping, left with shaft rebuilt in C20 above dripstone. Long earlier gabled range running at right angles to rear with original entrance front on west side. 5 windows on first floor; glazing bar sashes with wood lintels directly below eaves, narrow to left, 2 to centre and infilled to right with leaded wooden mullioned and transomed window to far right. Ground floor has leaded casements with chamfered wooden lintels to left and right of infilled doorway with infilled opening and leaded window with wood lintel and chamfered rectangular window with dripstone below to right of right window. 2 gabled dormers in centre of roof slope. Integral ashlar end stack to left with moulded dripstone and capping. Fragment of gable end of former attached barn below with wide gabled C19 addition built on its site. East side has scattered C20 casements on both floors and C20 ledged door under C19 bracketed segmental stone hood to far left. Extruded integral lateral stack with moulded dripstone and capping to centre. Hastings Hill House. Basic L-plan with gabled range to rear on left. Two late C19 casements in C18 stone surrounds, those to first floor with projecting keystones and two 2-light chamfered leaded mullion windows lighting cellar. 6-panel door to right with small window above. Two C19 gabled dormers in roof slope. Integral end stack to left, rebuilt in C20 above dripstone. Gabled staircase projection to rear in angle with rear range has chamfered rectangular window lighting cellar and apparently reused single-chamfered doorway with hoodmould (probably C14 and possibly brought from Old church (q.v.)) to left. This has chamfered rectangular opening inserted in its infill. Interior: Warren Hastings House: front part has infilled chamfered stone fireplace to right stack with hearth-stone of first-floor fireplace visible in ceiling above. This stone is covered with late C17/early C18 plaster decoration showing thistles, grapes and rosettes and with intials "RW", probably for Robert Walter. Plain cross beam with lock and key carving and exposed joists. Late C17 or early C18 dog-leg staircase in main range rising to attic has barleysugar balusters, moulded handrail and square newels: blocks leaded window on ground floor and partly blocks chamfered wooden mullioned and transomed window above which is presumably earlier than staircase. Oak spiral staircase rising to attic to right of lateral stack, which has chamfered stone fireplace with keystone on ground floor. Chamfered and plain ceiling beams and joists on both floors and several C18 two-panel doors. Hastings Hill House. Only partial inspection possible at time of resurvey (August 1987). Right ground-floor room has deep-chamfered wood lintel. Infilled doorway formerly leading to Hastings Hill House to left of fireplace. Oak winder staircase in gabled projection leads to attic and continuation of same in stone leads down to cellar which has twin barrel rubblestone vault. Warren Hastings was the first Governor-General of India. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p545) [2499]

Listing NGR: SP2822524333

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 253949
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 545

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.