Hinton House, Hinton Charterhouse

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Hinton House
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Location of Hinton House in Somerset
Location Hinton Charterhouse, Somerset, England
Coordinates 51°19′26″N2°19′26″W / 51.3240°N 2.3240°W / 51.3240; -2.3240 Coordinates: 51°19′26″N2°19′26″W / 51.3240°N 2.3240°W / 51.3240; -2.3240
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name: Hinton House
Designated 1 February 1956 [1]
Reference no. 1136140

Hinton House in Hinton Charterhouse, Somerset, England was built around 1700. It is a Grade II* listed building. [1]

Hinton Charterhouse

Hinton Charterhouse is a small village and civil parish in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, England. The parish, which includes the village of Midford, has a population of 515.

Somerset County of England

Somerset is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west. It is bounded to the north and west by the Severn Estuary and the Bristol Channel, its coastline facing southeastern Wales. Its traditional border with Gloucestershire is the River Avon. Somerset's county town is Taunton.

Listed building Collection of protected architectural creations in the United Kingdom

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History

The house was built around 1700 on the site of an earlier monastic grange and barn. [1] [2] Various renovations and expansions of the house took place in the first half of the 19th century. [3]

In the 1940s and 1950s the house was enlarged by George Phillips Manners and John Elkington Gill, [1] and the house was converted into three flats. [4]

George Phillips Manners was a British architect, Bath City Architect from 1823 to 1862.

John Elkington Gill (1821–1874) was a 19th-century architect in Bath, Somerset, England.

In 2017 an application was made to alter the access roads to the house. [5]

Architecture

The three-bay stone building has a slate roof with a balustraded parapet. The attached conservatory has an arcade of six Tuscan columns. [1]

Bay (architecture) space defined by the vertical piers, in a building

In architecture, a bay is the space between architectural elements, or a recess or compartment. Bay comes from Old French baee, meaning an opening or hole.

Parapet barrier which is an extension of the wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure

A parapet is a barrier which is an extension of the wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure. The word comes ultimately from the Italian parapetto. The German equivalent Brüstung has the same meaning. Where extending above a roof, a parapet may simply be the portion of an exterior wall that continues above the edge line of the roof surface, or may be a continuation of a vertical feature beneath the roof such as a fire wall or party wall. Parapets were originally used to defend buildings from military attack, but today they are primarily used as guard rails and to prevent the spread of fires.

Arcade (architecture) covered walk enclosed by a line of arches on one or both sides

An arcade is a succession of contiguous arches, with each arch supported by columns, piers. Exterior arcades are designed to provide a sheltered walkway for pedestrians. The walkway may be lined with retail stores. An arcade may feature arches on both sides of the walkway. Alternatively, a blind arcade superimposes arcading against a solid wall. Blind arcades are a feature of Romanesque architecture that influenced Gothic architecture. In the Gothic architectural tradition, the arcade can be located in the interior, in the lowest part of the wall of the nave, supporting the triforium and the clerestory in a cathedral, or on the exterior, in which they are usually part of the walkways that surround the courtyard and cloisters.

The grounds feature specimen tress and a walled kitchen garden. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Hinton House". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Hinton House History 1". Hinton Charterhouse. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Hinton House History 2". Hinton Charterhouse. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Hinton House History 3". Hinton Charterhouse. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "Hinton House Estate" (PDF). Greenhalgh Landscape Architecture. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  6. ↑ "Hinton House, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath & North East Somerset, England". Parks & Gardens UK. Parks and Gardens Data Services Ltd. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
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