Description

SE 2711 HIGH HOYLAND CHURCH LANE
(West side)

7/147 Hoyland Hall
18.3.68

II

Large house. c1720. Probably for Sir Henry Wentworth. Coursed squared
stone with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. Three storeys, double-pile,
five bays. Symmetrical front. Plinth. Angle pilasters rising as rusticated
quoins on first and second floors. Central, panelled door with overlight, in
moulded architrave with an open segmental pediment, on console brackets,
which breaks through ground-floor band. Tall sash windows (lower glazing has
gone). Slightly shorter first floor sashes, as before. Short 6-pane sashes
to second floor. The central windows to first and second floors are linked
by an ashlar apron. Moulded eaves cornice. Gable copings on short moulded
kneelers. Truncated ashlar end stacks. Rear: Similar to front but plainer.
No doorway. Ground-floor windows to bays 4 and 5 have been replaced by a
large C20 single window. No eaves cornice. Central windows in each return
lighting corridors and stairways.

Interior: Brick vaulted cellars. Simple C18 panelling and heavy moulded
cornices to first floor rooms. Panelled doors and shutters.

Listing NGR: SE2735910239

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26487797

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)