Description

1.
5140
TL 29 70
16/1
24.10.51

HEMINGFORD GREY
CHURCH STREET
(north side)
Hemingford Grey House
(formerly listed as Grey Hall Hotel)

II*

2.
Dated 1697. (VCH) House with service range to south-east and modern additions to
south-west. Square plan. Red brick. Hipped roof of old, plain tiles with modillioned
eaves cornice. Two internal stacks of similar brick with capping and string courses.
Two-storeys and attics. Symmetrical north-east and north-west elevations, each with
two dormers with hung sashes with glazing bars in cambered heads and later gables.
Five window ranges of C19 hung sashes with glazing bars in moulded architraves with
slightly curved heads in segmental headed arches. North-east doorway with flat,
moulded hood with scroll brackets and panelled soffit. Door with six raised and
fielded panels with two glazed upper lights. Three curved steps to north-west doorway
with plain shell hood on scroll brackets with carved foliate decoration. Door of
two raised and fielded panels with glazed upper half and rectangular fan-light.
Interior north-west ground-floor room has original raised and fielded panelling and
moulded cornice. Circa 1720 main staircase of two flights, open string with carved
brackets and three turned balusters to each tread, moulded rail. Late C17 back
staircase with closed string, turned balusters and square section newel posts.
Late C17 service range to south-east. Timber-framed, rendered. Old, plain tile roof,
hipped to right hand. Ridge stack of small, hand made bricks. Two-storeys. Two
ranges of four hung sashes with glazing bars in moulded architraves with plain
plaster margins. Modern red brick extension to service range. Tiled roof, hipped to
left hand. Two-storeys. Similar windows.
(RCHM Huntingdonshire p 136).

Listing NGR: TL2925870892

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Hemingford Grey House official website
• Wikidata Q17544083

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)