Description

SD 715 389 GREAT MITTON

SD 73 NW

12/87 Great Mitton Hall (previously listed as Mitton Old Hall) 16.11.1954 GV II

House, c.1600. Rubble, pebbledashed towards south-west, with steep slate roof. 2 storeys with attic and cellar. Original windows mullioned with outer chamfer and inner hollow chamfer. The south-west wall has a single-storey gabled porch near the centre having a re-used outer doorway, probably C14th, with pointed head and with a roll moulding with fillet. Above is a coping with finial. To the right is a gabled single-storey extension with the remains of the hood to a blocked window on the 1st floor. To the left is the line of what appears to be a demolished wing, implying that the porch is an addition. At the left is an enlarged 3-light window with hood. On the 1st floor is a 5-light window with hood. The left-hand gable has a chimney with brick cap Gable copings, the left-hand one with finials. The left-hand (north-west) gable has a hood remaining on the 1st floor and an attic window with hood and with one light remaining. The right-hand gable is buttressed and has a mullioned cellar window, a 14-light mullioned and transomed ground- floor window, a 7-light 1st floor window and a 5-light attic window. The north-east wall has a turret at its left-hand end, gabled with a coping and finial. Chamfered lights at intermediate levels suggest that it may once have contained a stair. It has a 2-light window with hood on the 1st floor and a similar blocked window to the attic. Its right-hand return wall has a wooden door surround with triangular head, probably re-set. A Buckler drawing of 18O9 shows a doorway in the left-hand return wall, now blank. Near the centre of this facade is a gabled dormer with blocked window and hood, and with a small chimney cap. At the right on the ground floor is an original window with one mullion remaining. Above is a 4-light window with hood, with a 3-light window to its left. There are a number of blocked window openings, but the 4 remaining windows are C19th with chamfered stone surrounds. The door has a chamfered stone surround with hood. Interior not accessible at time of survey but said to contain no features of particular interest.

Listing NGR: SD7152538923

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)