South Gateway to Hillington Hall With Attached Lodges, Splay Walls and Crosses
SOUTH GATEWAY TO HILLINGTON HALL WITH ATTACHED LODGES, SPLAY WALLS AND CROSSES, LYNN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077613
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- South Gateway to Hillington Hall With Attached Lodges, Splay Walls and Crosses
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH GATEWAY TO HILLINGTON HALL WITH ATTACHED LODGES, SPLAY WALLS AND CROSSES, LYNN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077613
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- South Gateway to Hillington Hall With Attached Lodges, Splay Walls and Crosses
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH GATEWAY TO HILLINGTON HALL WITH ATTACHED LODGES, SPLAY WALLS AND CROSSES, LYNN ROAD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH GATEWAY TO HILLINGTON HALL WITH ATTACHED LODGES, SPLAY WALLS AND CROSSES, LYNN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hillington
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 71793 25569
Details
HILLINGTON LYNN ROAD TF 72 NW (north side) 3/39 South gateway to Hillington Hall with attached lodges, splay 15/8/60 (Village Cross only) walls and crosses. (west cross previously listed as Village Cross) - II
Gateway c1830, by W.J. Donthorne, shell carstone with stone dressings. Gothick archway with storey above and attached flanking 2-bay lodge cottages, splay walls and terminating piers. Symmetrical facade with tall 4-centred central arch with continuous moulding to front and stone shields of arms to either side; 8-light Gothick window above with king mullion; stepped embattled parapets; gates of openwork in wood and iron; octagonal ashlar turrets to either side of gateway arch, rising above central parapet, embattled parapets and 4 slit openings to each turret. Gateway passage with rib vaulting rising from stiff leaf foliage corbels. 2-bay attached cottages to left and right: bay next to arch of 2 storeys with embattled parapet, string courses run into hoods above ground floor 2-light Gothick headed window and above 1st floor single Gothick headed light; outer single storey bays with narrow slit windows and straight parapet. Outer splay walls terminate in large low square piers surmounted by remains of medieval crosses: cross to west (left) with square base having spherical angle stops, tall shaft; cross to east (right) with square base and stump of shaft; both crosses repositioned by Donthorne. Rear: symmetrical central bay breaks forward with stone quoins, tall 4-centred gateway arch with ogee headed hood rising from crowned figure stops and rising to central canopied niche on floor above arch, flanking blank slits to niche, stepped parapet, small octagonal rendered turrets to angles of central bay above arch, (turrets conceal chimney shafts, embattled parapets removed). Attached 2-bay lodge cottages to left and right: bay adjacent to central arch of 2 storeys with embattled parapet and string course, Gothick windows of 3 lights to ground floor, 2-lights to 1st floor; single storey outer bays with brick quoins and plain parapet, small square blocked window. Hillington Hall rebuilt by Donthorne c1824-30 was demolished c1947.
Listing NGR: TF7179325569
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 222149
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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