Description

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TQ 49 NW
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LIPPITTS HILL
Lippittshill Lodge

GV
II
Circa 1824 on site of an earlier house. Stucco, hipped Welsh slate roof. Three storeys with plinth, quoins, modillion cornice. Three sash windows in architrave surrounds, lower side windows three light, first floor cornices on consoles supporting pediments. Door cornice hood in centre on brackets and fluted half columns with bases, no capitals. Two storey two window wing.

Listed partly for historical interest as a former private asylum which housed the poet John Clare, 1837-40. The building then known as Dr Allen's Lunatic Asylum, Leopard's Hill Lodge.

Lippithill Lodge and Grotto form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ4004896764

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26621891

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)