Hatley Park

HATLEY HATLEY ST GEORGE TL 25SE outh side)

4/99 22.11.67 Hatley Park

GV II*

Country house. C17 core, but mainly two building periods, early and mid C18. Red brick, stone dressings. Slate roof, hipped, with parapet surmounted by stone urns, and main cornice also of stone. Internal stacks of red brick, rectangular in plan with capping. Plan of single east-west range with mid C18 extensions at each end. Cellar, two storeys and attic. North front probably remodelled late C18 has seven bay centre block including pedimented and slightly projecting three centre bays. Rusticated quoins, bulls eye window to tympanum, twelve pane recessed hung sashes and central doorway with pedimented Ionic portico. The flanking wings are symmetrical and of three bays each. The centre window at ground floor of each wing is a Venetian window in a round headed arch with fan surround. South front has irregular window disposition indicating the C17 core. Seven bays. Hung sashes in raised stucco surrounds. The symmetrical wings at the end were widened late C18 and the projections at the ends added. The ground floor infills are wooden. The interior is much altered but some C18 chimney pieces have been inserted. According to Lysons the house was rebuilt by Sir Robert Cotton after 1682 and before 1707, when it was illustrated by Johannes Kip (Britannia Illustrata, 1707). It was extended by Margaret Cotton, mid C18, and acquired by Thomas Quintin in late C18 who may have refaced the north front.

RCHM: West Cambs mon (3) Pevsner: Buildings of England p405

Listing NGR: TL2759750979