Description

MIDDLESBROUGH NUNEATON DRIVE, NZ 41 SE (4814) south end (off), Hemlington. 5/58 Hemlington Hall Farmhouse, farm cottage and garden wall. G.V. II. Farmhouse, mid C18, altered in mid C19; c.1800 farm cottage and mid C19 garden wall. Now all used as leisure centre, with caretaker's dwelling in farm cottage. Renewed render; painted dressed sandstone plinth; Welsh slate roofs with stone ridge and gable copings. Wall, brick in English garden wall bond with flat sandstone copings. 2 storeys; 3-window (north) entrance front. Central renewed 6-panel door, and original overlight with patterned glazing bars, in partly-renewed wood pilaster-and-entablature surround. 16-pane sash windows, and painted stone sills. Plain parapet with flat sandstone copings. End stacks with stone caps. Lower 2-storey, 3-window farm cottage adjoins left. Renewed doors in centre and right end. Late C20 casement windows except for horizontal sash, with glazing bars, at right on first floor. Block kneeler at left end. Similar ridge and left-end stacks. Garden wall projects from middle of cottage and runs north for c.25m. Elliptical-headed cart-opening, with plain stone imposts, at south end of wall. Stepped down and partly rebuilt at south end. 3-window (south) garden front has 2 ground-floor mid-C19 canted bay windows. Renewed sashes, 16-pane on first floor, 12-pane on ground floor; painted stone sills. Cottage has 16-pane sash window on each floor. right end obscured by adjoining outbuildings. INTERIOR: some original ceiling cornices; 6-panel doors and wood architraves. Open-well staircase has shaped tread ends, stick balusters, moulded handrail, scrolled onto central boss and column newel on scrolled curtail step. Elliptical arch over first-floor landing and round arch over first-floor passage, both with wood architraves and reeded responds. Outbuilding, adjoining south side of farm cottage, not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ4873214579

External Links

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