Description

WEST STREET
TQ 74 NW HUNTON
(South-east Side)
4/126
Hunton Court
25.7.52
GV II

House. C13 core to C14 house with C18 alterations and facade of
circa 1848. Graduated blocks of evenly-coursed stone. Slate roof.
Hall of 3 bays with C14 roof. Cross-wing to left end, projecting
forwards, with C18 roof. No surviving bay adjoining right end of
hall. Re-entrant angle built out, probably in mid C19, to form
double-depth plan. 2 storeys an attic on low stone plinth. Central
break. 2-storey canted stone bay to left. Moulded stone cornice to
front, including bay, and part of right return elevation. Balustraded
parapet round whole building, but slightly lower to rear and left
return elevations. Moulded triangular stone pediment to central
break. Roof hipped to right, hip returning. Steeply-pitched roof
to left cross-wing, hipped to front and rear. 5 stone stacks with
moulded cornices; one to left gable end, one to rear towards left, one
to centre and one to rear towards right and one towards right end.
12-pane sashes to dormers concealed by balustrade. Irregular
fenestration of 8 recessed 12-pane sashes set well below eaves, with
wedge lintels, and small stone corbels to cills; 3 with blind boxes
to left canted bay, 3 to central break, and 2 broadly spaced to right
of break. Tall 6-pane sashes with thin glazing bars to ground floor.
2-storey canted stone bay to front of right return elevation, with
3 sashes with blind boxes. Single-storey later C19 stone porch across
front of central break, with rusticated ashlar pilasters and coved
and moulded cornice to parapet. Broken-based segmental pediment over
central panelled door. Gothic central doorway to rear elevation.
2-storey addition to rear to left in chequered red and grey brick, with
slate roof and dentilled eaves cornice. Interior: only partly
inspected. Hall roof with 2 moulded octagonal crown-posts to centre
and one moulded semi-octagonal pilaster crown-post to each end, all
with braces of square section to collar purlin and collars. Staggered
butt-purlin roof to left cross-wing. Stone-vaulted L-plan "cellar",
probably C13 rather than C14, with bevelled pointed arch to entrance
to narrower foot of L and 2 broad plain-chamfered round-arched ribs
to main section. Blocked chamfered rectangular lancet with broad
rounded rere-arch to end of narrower section. Formerly known as Court
Lodge. Country residence of Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman 1872-1908.

Listing NGR: TQ7245849620

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542197

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