Hinton Hall Whitchurch Urban, England

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WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. TARPORLEY ROAD SJ 54 SW (south-west side) 1/129 Hinton Hall - - II

Country house. Dated: "18 E 59" (rainwater head), by S. Pountney Smith of Shrewsbury for Robert Peel Ethelston. Red brick with some blue- brick diaperwork in gables and red sandstone ashlar dressings. Plain tile roofs. Square plan with service wing to north-east. In a neo- Jacobean style. 2 storeys and attic over basement with service wing of 3 storeys and attic. Chamfered plinth, moulded string courses, coped parapet with corner finials and coped parapeted gables with string cornices and finials at apices. Numerous brick stacks, those to main block consisting of grouped star-section shafts. South-east (garden) front: 1:1:1 bays with central break. 3 gables, that to centre with flanking stacks. Double-chamfered stone cross windows. 2-light double-chamfered stone mullioned attic windows flanking central stepped 3-light attic window with triangular pediment to raised centre light. Central first- floor canted oriel window with moulded base, 1-:2-:1- light mullioned and transomed windows, and cornice to parapet, with raised centre over carved monogram. Ground-floor square bay to left with 2-: 4-: 2-light window, moulded cornice, and pierced parapet with circular strapwork motif. Lower part set back to right, of one bay. North-east (entrance) front: 3 gables central attic cross window and central first-floor 4-light stone mulioned and transomed window lighting entrance hall. 2-storey canted porch in angle to left with string courses and cornice and pierced parapet with circular strapwork motif. First-floor window with transom and dripstone. Round-arched doorway with a pair of panelled doors, rusticated stone architrave with keystone and stone doorcase with unfluted columns on pedestals and open segmental pediment. Flight of 12 grey sandstone steps with curved balustrades (partly collapsed at time of survey - October 1986). South-west front: 3 gables, that to centre with integral stack consisting of a pair of star-section shafts divided by diaper brickwork. 1:2:1 bays; double-chamfered stone cross windows. 2-light mullioned attic windows, the inner pair with dripstones and the outer pair with triangular pediments. 2-storey canted bay in second bay from right with 1-:3-:1- light mullioned and transomed windows, moulded cornice and pierced parapet with circular strapwork motif. Service range to north-east of 3 storeys and attic with 2 ridge stacks, and 3 gables and central second-floor oriel window to south-east. Interior in neo-Jacobean and neo-Baroque styles with well detailed fixtures and ornament. Entrance hall: pair of half-glazed inner doors with strapwork in semi-circular overlight and moulded architrave with keystone. Chamfered Tudor-arched stone fireplace with panelling above. Balcony at north-east end with neo-Jacobean balusters, square newel posts with pierced finials, and chamfered Tudor archways in wall at each end. Ovolo-moulded depressed archway to stair hall at south-west end. Internal window to right consisting of 3 four-centred arched openings. Top- lit full-height staircase hall: neo-Jacobean dog-leg staircase with closed string, rectangular-section balusters, moulded handrail, square newel posts with large finials and pendants, and panelled soffit. Balustrade returned to first-floor corridor. Pairs of round arches to mezzanine, first floor and first-floor corridor. Each pair with central Tuscan stone column , panelled soffits and moulded architraves with keys. Central circular openings in spandrels with keyed moulded architraves. Top lighting provided by cross windows with segmental-headed lights. Vaulted wooden ceiling consisting of panelled pendentives springing from carved corner brackets and supporting 4 round arches with keys and panelled soffits, and octagonal inner vault to lantern (boarded over at time of survey - October 1986). South-west ground-floor room has plaster frieze and modillion cornice,