Description

SZ 2093 CHRISTCHURCH LYMINGTON ROAD
(Southside)

748/13/407 Former boundary wall of
12.2.76 Highcliffe Castle along
Lymington Road (from
opposite Nea Road to former
lodges - with gap at entrance
to Rothesay Drive

GV II

Former boundary wall to Highcliffe Castle. Circa 1830, repaired C20. Hitch's patent brick in rat-trap and stretcher bond with triangular brick coping and buttresses. About 1.5 m tall, now in four sections. The wall was probably built during Donthorne's remodelling of Highcliffe Castle in 1830-4. In 1828 Caleb Hitch, a Ware [in Herts.] brickmaker, was granted a patent for large interlocking bricks with cavities. They were laid on edge and claimed to be more economical than standard bricks, but because of the complicated form of brick required to turn a corner many different patterns had to be produced. Consequently, they were not widely adopted and outside Ware Hitch bricks are very rare.

Listing NGR: SZ2025293401

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26403806

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)