Hazlitt House is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1951. House.
Hazlitt House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-vault-stoat
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1951
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1. 5358 SJ 3128 3/73 28.8.51
NOBLE STREET (south side) No 17 (Hazlitt House)
II* GV
2. Early C18 painted brick house. Plain tile roof with gabled ends. Taller centre bay has hipped roof, brick pilaster quoins and string course. Two storeys. Four bays. Two and 3-light casement windows with leaded panes, some in segmental-headed openings. Left of centre a moulded doorcase, glazed door and hood on brackets. Plaque above inscribed "In this house lived the Reverend William Hazlitt from 1787 to 1813 and his son William Hazlitt essayist and critic from 1787 to 1799." Brick chimney stack near centre and another at east end. Gabled wing at rear with stone coping with moulded kneelers. Interior: Rear ground floor room has C17 panelling (said to have come from the church) with fluted frieze and carved panels over an C18 moulded stone chimney piece. Adjacent to the south-west is the derelict remains of the Old Victorian Chapel of which William Hazlitt, senior, was minister.
Listing NGR: SJ5126128957
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