Description

LYDIATE PYGON'S HILL LANE
SD 30 SE
(west side)
7/90 Rose Hill
II
House. C18 with mid C19 facade. Brick with stucco and
pebble-dash facade, slate roof. 2 storeys, 7 bays, the 1st
2 bays recessed, the last 5 bays form symmetrical
composition. Ground floor with chanelled rustication, 1st
floor sill band and quoins. Ground floor has canted bay
windows with hipped slate roofs. 1st floor windows have
shouldered and eared architraves, friezes and cornices; the
central window has consoled segmental pediment. Windows
have sashes, no glazing bars. Central porch has round-
arched entrance with flanking flat pilasters, frieze,
cornice and hipped roof. 1st 2 bays have canopied entrance,
4 gable-end stacks and one in roof pitch. Rear has some
windows with glazing bars. House is important for its
associations with the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, who
visited the house to say Mass in the private chapel. Here
he wrote the poem"Spring and Fall" and corresponded with
fellow poet Robert Bridges.

Listing NGR: SD3762504502

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26627126

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Old House Care and Repair