Description

CROOK AND WILLINGTON HUNWICK LANE
NZ 13 SE
(East side)Hunwick
32/39 Helmington Hall
17/4/52 including adjacent
storage building
and gateway
II

House, with storage building and gateway. Formerly dated 1686; additions and
alterations c.1805; incorporates earlier fabric in adjoining building and gateway.
Thinly-rendered sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins; roof pantiled,
with Welsh slate at eaves and at east end, with brick chimneys on house, rendered,
and brick chimneys on adjacent building; stone gable copings. Double-pile house
2 storeys, 4 bays, the right gabled, and low one-storey, one-bay pent right
extension; one-storey, 3-bay building at left; gateway at extreme left.

House has blocked door in third bay in bolection-moulded architrave under
floating cornice; datestone removed; scrolled pediments over sash windows,
those on ground floor of late C19 type in raised stone surrounds, those on first
floor in first 3 bays with glazing bars; plain sash in gabled right bay, and
smaller square window at right in gable peak. One-storey building at left has
blocked door in right end with large irregular-block jambs; blocked windows in
other bays separated by coped buttress with one offset. White brick chimneys on
house; massive rendered stack between first and second bays of left building
has offsets on brick copings; truncated left end chimney. Main house left
return has Gothic treatment with Y-traceried window at left under gable string
and parapet; small round opening in square stone surround at right in gable peak.
Gateway at extreme left has high parapet over 4-centred arch flanked by
buttresses; chamfered stone coping.

Interior: house has deeply-moulded stucco cornice in rear left room on first
floor. Storage building has pigeon nest boxes of stone flags on brick supports
in gable and rear wall of loft.

Listing NGR: NZ1881533425

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26522806

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)