Description

TL 44 SE HINXTON HIGH STREET
(South Side)
6/166 Hinxton Hall (Tube
22.11.67 Investments Ltd)
GV II*
Country house. 1748-1756 for John Bromwell Jones; late C18 additions by
William Vachell; early and mid C19 alterations and early C20 additions. Red
brick tuck pointed, with gauged brick window dressings and moulded limestone
details. Lead and corrugated steel roofs. Original central block of three
storeys and basement (noted by Wm Cole) with two late C18 two storey wings and
screen walls; service wing to south. West elevation: Symmetrical facade of
five 'bays' with projecting wings of three 'bays'. C19 fluted Greek Doric
portico with six-panelled door and patterned rectangular fanlight. Late C18
rusticated stone plinth continued to side of steps, shaped with moulded edges.
Stone band between ground and first floors and cornice band, panelled brick
parapet with side stacks. Ten ground floor and eleven similar first floor
twelve-paned recessed hung sash windows with painted reveals, nine-paned
second floor windows. Garden elevation: Central block of five 'bays' divided
by four giant Corinthian pilasters from first floor. Central bay with carved
stone architraves to first and second floor windows and with Ionic pilasters
to garden entrance with rusticated reveals; a stone apron has a relief
carving of a trout. C19 garden door replacement. Fanned key stones to
eighteen-paned and twelve-paned ground and first floor hung sash windows;
nine-paned second floor windows with honeysuckle and dentil enrichment to
stone cornice. Stone steps form terrace. Wings treated as pavillions each
with pedimented parapets and pair of full height round headed garden hung sash
windows; balustered parapets to side walls and screens with pair of round
windows, (two parapet urns survive). Interior details. C18 open String
staircase with four balusters to each tread. Fine late C18 or early C19
chimney pieces of French Rococo and Empire designs; plastered cornices and
colonade to hall. Wall paintings in drawing room copied from antique
paintings in Herculeneum and Pompeii recorded in c.1950 (R.C.H.M.) and now
covered with exception of two panels. Mid C19 plastered ceilings and painted
panels. Double doors with over mantels to south lobby entrance now sealed but
possibly originally a house entry from a side carriage way.
R.C.H.M. Reports. 1951, 54
V.C.H., Vol. VI, p224
Pevsner: Buildings of England

Listing NGR: TL4980344824

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17627389

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