Description

HILTON HIGH STREET
1.
5140 (south side)
Hilton Hall, gate piers
and forecourt wall
TL 26 NE 9/20 24.10.51
II*
2.
Early C17, T-plan house with C18 facade. Red brick, formerly colour-washed. Old
tile roof with parapet and parapet gables. Projecting end stacks with recessed panels.
Three-storeys. Second and first-floors are basically a three window range of hung
sashes with glazing bars recessed in segmental headed arches, with flanking blind
openings at first-floor. Band course between first and ground-floors. Ground-floor
has pair of hung sashes flanked by blind openings on each side of central, modern
two panelled door with glazed upper half. Interior has fine early C17 staircase of
six flights (RCHM Item 4). Moulded beams with elaborately decorated stops, and C18
panelling in hall. Modern single-storey extension to rear has C18 panelling,
removed from Park Farm, Hilton, now demolished. C18 low wall and two square section,
red brick gate piers to forecourt. Piers with ball finials. Wrought iron gates,
dated 1845.
(RCHM Huntingdonshire Mon 4 p 139).

Listing NGR: TL2908866366

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Hilton Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17544088

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2