Description

NESTON

SJ37NW CHESTER HIGH ROAD, Hinderton
794-1/2/37 (East side)
10/08/71 Hinderton Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
HINDERTON, Parkgate
Hinderton Hall)

GV II

Country house, now offices. Dated 1856. By Alfred Waterhouse.
Rock-faced coursed red sandstone with projecting plinth,
ashlar flush quoins and dressings; steeply pitched green slate
roof including fishscale slates, stone copings and stacks, and
gable finials.
EXTERIOR: entrance front of 2 storeys with attics; 5-bay front
between gabled crosswings, right one set back, left one
projecting; 3-storey entrance bay with steeply pitched hipped
roof. Entrance bay has paired oak boarded doors on strap
hinges and 2-centred arched overlight beneath steeply pitched
porch hood on wooden brackets. Windows mainly mullioned, in
pairs, some on first floor beneath gabled half dormers.
Garden front of 3-storey gabled bay in centre flanked by
2-storey 3-bay ranges, range to right set back and right end
bay gabled. At left end is a mullioned and transomed 5-light
canted bay window on ground floor; on first floor, a window of
3 stepped lights in 2-centred arched opening beneath tall
crossgable. Centre and left of centre bays have 4-light
mullioned and transomed windows. Otherwise, windows on ground
floor are of 4 mullioned lights, on first floor of 2- or
3-lights, of 2 lights on second floor of centre bay.
Right return: has a canted half dormer with dated tablet
recessed in the gable head.
INTERIOR: entrance hall has stone fireplace with Tudor arched
opening, crenellated cresting, fluted side piers, vine motif
surround and dagger and multi-foil frieze: 6-panel doors of 3
long panels over 3 short panels.
Drawing Room has marble mantel on consoles and fern pilasters;
panelled walls with niches flanking window opening; ceiling
divided into three coffers by moulded plaster beams and
patterned ribs.
Open well staircase with carved newels and handrails and metal
balustrade. There are galleries to three sides.

Listing NGR: SJ3054078418

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Hinderton Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15224148

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)