Description

TEMPLE GRAFTON

SP15SW HILLBOROUGH
1931-1/3/105 West Hillborough Farmhouse
05/04/67
(Formerly Listed as:
HILLBOROUGH
West Hillborough)

II

Farmhouse. Dated 1605 GAK (for George and Ann Kempson). Partly
rebuilt in C19. Regular coursed blue lias rubble with brick to
right end and rear; steeply pitched renewed tile roofs with
brick end stack and stone ridge stack with diagonally set
brick shafts. L-plan with 2-storey gabled porch.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Gabled wing to left end
and porch wing; plus a single-storey extension to right end.
Left wing has moulded timber bargeboards and entrance up steps
with plank door; porch has entrance to front and part-blocked
Tudor-headed entrance to right return; inner entrance has
ovolo-moulded frame with lower stops and wide-boarded door
with strap hinges; entrance to inner return of wing. Stone
ovolo-mullioned windows, to left wing a partly blocked 4-light
window to ground floor, 3-light window to first floor and top
2-light double-chamfered mullioned window; similar blocked
window to left of centre under deep pentice and with datestone
above; segmental-headed windows to porch and right end have
casements.
Single-storey wing has 2 entrances, one segmental-headed, one
with frame as main entrance, flanking segmental-headed window
with small-paned casement.
Rear has segmental-headed entrance with overlight to left of
centre and similar casement windows.
INTERIOR: some chamfered beams and large fireplace to left end
with timber bressumer, panelled cupboards to right.
(Victoria County Histories: Styles P: Victoria History of the
County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 94-100).

Listing NGR: SP1238351914

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662802

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas